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Object type
Museum number
PDF.542
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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.
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Culture/period
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Date
- 1522-1566
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Production place
- Made in: Jingdezhen
- (Asia,China,Jiangxi (province),Jingdezhen)
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Materials
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Technique
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Dimensions
- Height: 78 millimetres
- Diameter: 180 millimetres
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Inscriptions
Inscription Type
reign markInscription Script
ChineseInscription Position
on baseInscription Language
ChineseInscription Content
大明嘉靖年製Inscription Transliteration
Da Ming Jiajing nian zhiInscription Translation
Made in the Jiajing period
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Curator's comments
Published PDF date : Ming Jiajing 1522-1566Room 95 label text:
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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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Location
On display: G95/dc41/sh2
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Acquisition name
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Department
Asia
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Registration number
PDF.542
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