bowl
- Museum number
- PDF.733
- Description
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Square porcelain bowl with flared sides and everted rim. There is a double square enclosing a character in wucai-style underglaze blue and overglaze red, green, aubergine and black enamels on the centre of the interior, a band of fungus scroll just below the interior rim, panel on exterior with children at play in a landscape, and a classic scroll band at the rim, enclosed by parallel lines. There is a mark in underglaze blue on the base.
- Production date
- 1522-1566
- Dimensions
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Height: 57 millimetres
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Width: 119 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Published PDF date : Ming Jiajing 1522-1566
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Room 95 label text:
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Wucai square bowl with children playing
Potters decorated this bowl in a twice-fired technique called 五彩 (wucai ‘five colours’) composed of underglaze blue and overglaze red, yellow, and green. Chinese people regard genre scenes of children playing as auspicious, representing a wish for many sons. The base carries an underglaze blue Jiajing reign mark.
Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue and overglaze wucai enamels
Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province江西省, 景德鎮
Ming dynasty, Jiajing mark and period, AD 1522–1566
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五彩嬰戲紋方形碗
此五彩方形碗兩次燒成,包括釉下青花及釉上紅、黃及綠彩。中國人將嬰戲圖樣式視作吉祥,寓意期盼多子。器底署青花嘉靖年款。
瓷器,青花,釉上五彩
江西省景德鎮
明代,嘉靖,嘉靖款,1522-1566年
- Location
- On display (G95/dc27/sh7)
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- PDF.733