ARTEX Fountain Pen (Blue)

Size of Fountain Pen : 13.2 x 1 x 1 cm Size of Gift Box:19 x9.5 x3.5 cm Main Material of the Product: Brass Weight of Fountain Pen : 35 g Wight of Gift Box : 142 g Fragile: No The Gift Box has included 1 converter and 1 cartridge. About ARTEX: ARTEX means “Art Expression”, an original brand design the writing instrument with fashion and creative look. To combine many different elements and concepts with pen designs, designer shows the variety of pen. Until now ARTEX have several hundreds of pen styles. Our goal is to bring consumers the joy of a whole new writing experience, and make the pens not just writing, but also a fashion accessory. About the collection from National Palace Museum Lang Shih-ning, the Chinese name of the Italian Giuseppe Castiglione, at 19 entered the Jesuit order as a novitiate and studied painting and architecture. As a missionary, he arrived in China at 27 and went on to serve the court as a painter, excelling at figures, birds-and-flowers, and especially horses. Shown here is a blue-and-white ceramic vase with a stalk of peonies. When Castiglione painted, he often added elements of Western perspective and shading to Chinese methods, giving colors fullness and objects realism. This “squarish blue-and-white vase with morning glory décor” originally appeared in the Hsüan-te era(1426 to 1435) of the Ming. Reproduced in the following Ch'ing dynasty, the Museum collection includes many such examples. This painting depicts an underglaze blue vase with a twin stalk of peony blossoms. The work is undated, but the Sung-script style of Castiglione’s signature probably dates it from the Yung-cheng reign (1723 to 1735). The description of the peony blossoms is similar to that found in the lotuses of Castiglione’s “Assembled Auspiciousness” on display here, in which much less emphasis is placed on the outlines of the forms. The two works are also very similar in terms of the techniques of color usage. Combined with the treatment of shadows, in which even the luster of the glaze on the porcelain has been observed and faithfully rendered, these two works reveal features common to the same period of Castiglione’s career. The porcelain vase depicted here has two beast figures for handles, and the decoration is composed of morning glory, which make it very similar to a piece in the National Palace Museum collection entitled “Rectangular Ming dynasty underglaze blue vase of morning glory stems.”