cup
- Museum number
- PDF.189
- Description
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Porcelain cup, with yellowish glaze. There is a spiral design of flowers incised on the exterior, with the character for 'longevity'. One of a pair with PDF.190.
- Production date
- 1662-1722
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 74 millimetres
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Height: 32 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Published PDF date : Qing 18thC
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Room 95 label text:
PDF 189
Cup with incised flowers and inscription
Potters incised this cup with a pattern of plum blossom and lotuses with panels in between. It is incised with the character壽 (Shou ‘longevity’). Craftsmen in the late Ming and Qing dynasties made copies of Ding wares at Jingdezhen in Jiangxi province, Zhangzhou in Fujian province and in other southern kilns. The cup is chalky white or ‘rice–coloured’ and potters covered it either with a white slip and a thin transparent glaze with a yellowish cast that crackled during the cooling process or with an opaque white glaze. Connoisseurs once called this type of ceramic 土定 (tu ding ‘earthen Ding ware’).
Underfired porcelain, incised and with transparent glaze
Zhangzhou ware 漳州窯
Zhangzhou, Fujian province 福建省, 漳州
Qing dynasty, Kangxi period, about AD 1662–1722
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PDF 189
白釉劃花花卉紋刻銘杯
此杯杯身於開光間飾梅花及蓮花紋,並刻有“壽”字銘文。自晚明至清,江西景德鎮、福建漳州及其他一些南方窯口的陶工都仿燒定窯器物。此杯釉色為粉白色,或者說米色。陶工可能在黃色坯胎上塗抹白色化妝土而後罩透明釉燒成,在冷卻過程中形成開片,也有可能施不透明白釉燒成。鑒賞家們曾將此類陶瓷稱為“土定”。
生燒瓷器,劃花,透明釉
漳州窯
福建省漳州
清代,康熙,1662-1722年
- Location
- On display (G95/dc11/sh8)
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- PDF.189