vase
- Museum number
- PDF.156
- Description
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Porcelain vase, with long neck, two elephant-head handles and pendant rings. The vase has crackled white glaze. There are incised medallions of dragons on both sides.
- Production date
- 18thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 191 millimetres
- Curator's comments
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Published PDF date : 17th-18thC
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Room 95 label text:
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Vase with elephant-head handles
This vase has two elephant-head handles and pendant rings. It is incised with medallions of dragons on both sides. Potters 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 vase 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, about AD 1700–1800
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白釉象耳瓶
此瓶飾象耳活環,器身兩側皆飾劃花團龍紋。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。此瓶釉色為粉白色,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,約1700-1800年
- Location
- On display (G95/dc11/sh9)
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- PDF.156