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Source: Quote is from Medley, p. 235. From Stober PDF: "This unusual motif provoked much discussion with Western ceramic historians. Margaret Medley in her book The Chinese Potter, published in 1976, simply called it a “mystery”. Regina Krahl remarked on the example in the Topkapi Sarai collection, Istanbul : “The model or inspiration for this subject is still a mystery: it can be interpreted as a waterfall rushing down from the mountains into a lake, and therefore visually splitting the pagoda in the background in two...." (and a page or so more on this at pp. 30-31 here
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Source: Quote is from Medley, p. 235. From Stober PDF: "This unusual motif provoked much discussion with Western ceramic historians. Margaret Medley in her book The Chinese Potter, published in 1976, simply called it a “mystery”. Regina Krahl remarked on the example in the Topkapi Sarai collection, Istanbul : “The model or inspiration for this subject is still a mystery: it can be interpreted as a waterfall rushing down from the mountains into a lake, and therefore visually splitting the pagoda in the background in two...." (and a page or so more on this at pp. 30-31 here
5x expanded by Johnbod ( talk). Self-nominated at 04:05, 13 December 2016 (UTC).