water-pot
- Museum number
- PDF.546
- Description
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Square porcelain water-pot, with spreading sides. The water-pot has yellow enamel glaze covering the exterior, the base, and a narrow rim on the interior, and a plain felspathic glaze on the rest of the interior. There are two gilded brass dragons facing each other at the rim, which is held in their jaws. There is an inscription on the base.
- Production date
- 19thC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 102 millimetres
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Height: 49 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Published PDF date : 16th-17th century
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Room 95 label text:
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Water pot with gilt-bronze dragons
This water pot demonstrates an attractive use of a monochrome yellow glaze at Jingdezhen. This colour glaze was used to decorate court porcelain for some five hundred years of the imperial era in China from AD 1403 to AD 1911. Potters fired the water pot twice, first at a porcelain temperature of around 1280 to1320 °C and then in a second, lower-temperature firing to vitrify the lead-fluxed, iron-pigmented glaze. The gilt bronze dragons hook onto the edge of the water pot and can be removed.
Porcelain with transparent and yellow glazes and gilt-bronze dragon mounts
Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮
Qing dynasty, about 1800–1900
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鎏金銅龍耳水丞
此水丞展示了景德鎮對單色黃釉的成功誘人使用。黃釉用來裝飾中國皇家的宮廷用瓷,有五百餘年的歷史(1403至1911年)。器物為二次燒成,首先是在約1280°C至1320°C的高溫下燒成瓷器,而後罩施以鉛為助熔劑、鐵為呈色元素的黃釉,二次入窯以低溫燒將黃釉漿玻化。鎏金銅龍耳置於水丞口沿,可拆卸。
瓷器,透明釉及黃釉,鎏金銅龍耳
江西省景德鎮
清代,約1800-1900年
- Location
- On display (G95/dc41/sh8)
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- PDF.546