garden-seat
- Museum number
- PDF.714
- Description
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Porcelain garden seat of drum shape. There are two pairs of Buddhist lions playing with brocaded balls in fahua style with yellow, aubergine and turquoise on-biscuit enamels in the central band .
- Production date
- 1488-1505
- Dimensions
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Height: 416 millimetres
- Curator's comments
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Published PDF date : Ming Hongzhi 1488-1505
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Room 95 label text:
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Drum-shaped garden seat with lions playing with balls
Collectors coined the term 法華 or 琺華(Fahua ) in the 1920s. It refers to a decorative palette and style of ornament rather than to a kiln site. Rather like cloisonné decorated objects with boundaries of metal wires, fahua wares are decorated with designs generally outlined with trailed clay paste lines but sometimes with incised lines. These designs are filled in with bright overglaze colours: turquoise, ink-blue, amber yellow, aubergine purple, emerald green and white. Chemically fahua glazes are of an alkaline type more commonly used in Middle Eastern ceramics. Two types were made: low-fired fahua stonewares in Northern China and high-fired fahua porcelains in Southern China.
Porcelain with fahua decoration with blue, turquoise and yellow on-biscuit glazes, with green-glazed interior
Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮
Ming dynasty, about AD 1488–1505
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獅戲球紋鼓形座墩
二十世紀二十年代,收藏家們創造了術語“法華”或“琺華”,用以指代一種裝飾釉料和裝飾風格,而非某一個具體窯口。與琺瑯在金屬器身以金屬絲掐出裝飾圖案的邊界相似,琺華器通常也以泥漿在陶瓷上堆出裝飾圖案的輪廓,但有時也用刻劃線條作輪廓。圖案輪廓內填充明亮的釉上彩:孔雀藍、墨藍、琥珀黃、茄皮紫、鮮綠和白色。化學成分上琺華釉是一種鹼性釉,中東陶瓷器皿上使用更為普遍。琺華器有兩種類型:中國北方燒制的低溫琺華炻器和中國南方燒制的高溫琺華瓷器。
瓷器,琺華,素燒胎上裝飾藍、孔雀藍及黃色釉彩,內部為綠釉
江西省景德鎮
明代,約1488-1505年
- Location
- On display (G95/dc28/sh1)
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- PDF.714