Intertextuality: Character Story Ornamentation on the Ceramic and Novel Print Illustrations of Ming and Qing Dynasty 

Xuanyan Li 

Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, Jingdezhen, 333403, China

Abstract: This paper takes the character story ornamentation on the ceramic and novel print illustrations of Ming and Qing Dynasty as examples, and studies the ceramic decorative art from the perspective of intertex-tuality. Through combing intertextual relationship between the ceramic character story ornamentation and novel, drama, and the print illustrations in novels, it can be seen how the intertextual relationship between the ceramic character story ornamentation and novel print illustration in the Ming and Qing Dynasty was established, and the concrete manifestation of the ｓｏｕｒｃｅ of schema, the formation of style, its content structure and symbolic meaning. Through the description of the panoramic intertextual relationship of the ceramic character story ornamentation in the Ming and Qing Dynasty, the key role of deconstruction and construction practice of ceramic craftsmen in the development of ceramic decorative art is particularly outstanding.

Keywords: Ceramic character story ornamentation; Novel print illustration; Intertextuality