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jar / cover

• Object type

  • jar
  • cover

• Museum number

  PDF.610

• Description

  Porcelain honey pot with a round body, flanged shoulders and cylindrical neck, and cylindrical cover with a flat top. There are two five-clawed dragons chasing flaming pearls in underglaze copper red against a background of waves in underglaze blue. There is a mark on the neck.

• Culture/period

  • Qing dynasty

• Date

  • 18thC-19thC

• Production place

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

• Materials

  • porcelain

• Technique

  • underglazed

• Dimensions

  • Height: 79 millimetres

• Inscriptions

  • • Inscription Type

      reign mark

    • Inscription Position

      On the neck

    • Inscription Language

      Chinese

    • Inscription Content

      大明宣德年製

    • Inscription Transliteration

      Da Ming Xuande nian zhi

    • Inscription Translation

      Made in the Ming dynasty, Xuande reign

    • Inscription Comment

      Six-character archaistic Xuande mark in underglaze blue written horizontally on the neck

• Curator's comments

  Published PDF date : Ming early 17th centuryRoom 95 label text:

  PDF 610

  Blue-and-white jar and cover with copper-red dragons

  
  The base has an apocryphal six-character underglaze blue Xuande reign mark.

  
  Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue and underglaze copper-red decoration
  Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮
  Qing dynasty, about AD 1700–1900

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• Bibliography

  • Hobson 1934 p. 138, pl. CXXXVII(a)
  • Medley 1976 p.17, no.610
  • Pierson 2004 p.24, no.610

• Location

  On display: G95/dc24/sh3

• Acquisition name

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

• Department

  Asia

• Registration number

  PDF.610