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bowl
Object Type
bowl
Museum number
PDF.673
Description
Porcelain bowl with flaring foot. There are four fish in underglaze copper red with incised detail on the exterior. There is a mark on the base.
Cultures/periods
Ming dynasty
Zhengde
Production date
1506-1521
Production place
Made in:
Jingdezhen
Materials
porcelain
Technique
incised
underglazed
Dimensions
Diameter:
168 millimetres
Height:
79 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
Published PDF date : Ming Zhengde
Room 95 label text: PDF 673 Bowl with copper-red fishes This bowl is decorated with four fish in underglaze red with incised details such as their scales. Chinese people regard paired fish as a rebus (visual pun) for abundance as the words for both fish 魚 and abundance 餘, are pronounced yu. In the sixteenth century, mostly potters at Jingdezhen substituted underglaze copper-red with overglaze iron-red which was much easier to control and caused less wastage when completing imperial orders. On the base is a four-character Zhengde reign mark in underglaze blue in a double ring. Porcelain with incised decoration, underglaze cobalt-blue and underglaze copper-red Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮 Ming dynasty, Zhengde mark and period, AD 1506–1521
PDF 673 釉裏紅魚紋碗 此碗以釉裏紅繪四條魚,細部如鱗片則以刻劃表現。中國人將雙魚視作富足的象徵,因“魚”與“餘”諧音。在十六世紀,因更易控制火候且降低廢品損耗,陶工們奉欽命燒造瓷器時,逐漸以低溫釉上鐵紅(礬紅)替代高溫銅紅釉。器底署雙圈內青花四字正德年款。 瓷器,劃花,青花,釉裏紅 江西省景德鎮 明代,正德,正德款,1506-1521年
Bibliographic references
Pierson 2004 / Illustrated Catalogue of Underglaze Blue and Copper Red Decorated Porcelains in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art
(p.42, no.673, colour p.40)
Medley 1976 / Illustrated Catalogue of Underglaze Blue and Copper Red Decorated Porcelains
(p.28, no.673, pl.III)
Pierson 2002 / Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art: A Guide to the Collection
(p.67, no.52 (left))
Scott & Kerr 1994 / Ceramic Evolution in the Middle Ming Period
(p.16, no.2)
Pierson 2001 / Designs as Signs: Decoration and Chinese Ceramics
(p.21, no.13)
Hobson 1934 / A Catalogue of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain in the Collection of Sir Percival David Bt., F.S.A.
(p. 139, pl. CXXXVIII(c))
Medley 1975 / Volume 7: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art
(Monochrome pl. 127)
Location
On display
(G95/dc19/sh8)
Department
Asia
Registration number
PDF.673