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bowl

• Object type

  • bowl

• Museum number

  PDF.622

• Description

  Porcelain bowl with straight sides slightly flared at the rim. There is a roundel with a woman and child on a terrace in underglaze blue in the centre of the interior. There is an inscription on the exterior.

• Culture/period

  • Ming dynasty
  • Longqing

• Date

  • 1567-1572

• Production place

  • Made in: Jingdezhen
  • (Asia,China,Jiangxi (province),Jingdezhen)

• Materials

  • porcelain

• Technique

  • underglazed

• Dimensions

  • Height: 63 millimetres
  • Diameter: 122 millimetres

• Inscriptions

  • • Inscription Type

      reign mark

    • Inscription Position

      On the base

    • Inscription Language

      Chinese

    • Inscription Content

      大明隆慶年製

    • Inscription Transliteration

      Da Ming Longqing nian zhi

    • Inscription Translation

      Made in the Ming dynasty, Longqing reign

    • Inscription Comment

      Six-character Longqing mark in underglaze blue on the base.

  • • Inscription Type

      inscription

    • Inscription Position

      Outside

    • Inscription Language

      Chinese

    • Inscription Content

      Inscription

    • Inscription Translation

      The cuckoo sings through the night unceasingly. Take heed lest the silk worms have not leaves enough. The waning moon sinks through the willows before the house. The pretty girls continue to dance and sing, and have not returned.

    • Inscription Comment

      28-character inscription on the outside.

• Curator's comments

  Published PDF date : Ming Longqing 1567-1572Room 95 label text:

  PDF 622

  Blue and white bowl with inscription

  
  Longqing (AD1567–72) ceramics are particularly rare as the emperor only reigned for six years. Stylistically they relate closely to Jiajing and Wanli imperial wares. The inscription on this bowl is a poem and has been translated: ‘The cuckoo sings through the night unceasingly. Take heed lest the silk worms have not leaves enough. The waning moon sinks through the willows before the house. The pretty girls continue to dance and sing, and have not returned’.

  
  Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue decoration
  Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮
  Ming dynasty, Longqing mark and period, AD 1567–1572

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• Bibliography

  • Medley 1975 Monochrome pl. 143
  • Hobson 1934 p. 135, pl. CXXXIV(b)
  • Medley 1976 p.19, no.622, pl.I
  • Pierson 2004 p.26, no.622
  • Scott & Kerr 1994 p.34, no.68
  • Scott 1989B p.81, no.72
  • Pierson 2004A pp 90-91, no. 37 (BOWL)

• Location

  G95/case20/sh2

• Acquisition name

  • On loan from: Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art

• Department

  Asia

• Registration number

  PDF.622