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bowl

• Object type

  • bowl

• Museum number

  PDF.542

• Description

  Porcelain bowl with rounded sides and slightly everted rim. The bowl has uneven pale yellow enamel over a plain felspathic glaze. There is a mark in underglaze blue on the base.

• Culture/period

  • Ming dynasty
  • Jiajing

• Date

  • 1522-1566

• Production place

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

• Materials

  • porcelain

• Technique

  • underglazed
  • glazed

• Dimensions

  • Height: 78 millimetres
  • Diameter: 180 millimetres

• Inscriptions

  • • Inscription Type

      reign mark

    • Inscription Script

      Chinese

    • Inscription Position

      on base

    • Inscription Language

      Chinese

    • Inscription Content

      大明嘉靖年製

    • Inscription Transliteration

      Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi

    • Inscription Translation

      Made in the Jiajing period

• Curator's comments

  Published PDF date : Ming Jiajing 1522-1566Room 95 label text:

  PDF 542

  Bowl with yellow glaze

  
  This bowl 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 bowl 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 base has a six-character underglaze blue reign mark of the Jiajing period.

  
  Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue mark, transparent and yellow glazes
  Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮
  Ming dynasty, Jiajing mark and period, AD 1522–1566

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• Bibliography

  • Medley 1973 p.18, no.542
  • Scott 1989 p.18, no.542

• Location

  On display: G95/dc41/sh2

• Acquisition name

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

• Department

  Asia

• Registration number

  PDF.542