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• Object type

  • jar

• Museum number

  PDF.529

• Description

  Porcelain ovoid water-pot with small mouth. The water-pot has very pale cobalt blue glaze of 'yue bai' or 'clair de lune' type, apart from the white mouth-rim and base. There is a mark in underglaze blue on the base.

• Culture/period

  • Qing dynasty
  • Kangxi

• Date

  • 1662-1722

• Production place

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

• Materials

  • porcelain

• Technique

  • underglazed
  • glazed

• Dimensions

  • Height: 70 millimetres
  • Diameter: 73 millimetres

• Inscriptions

  • • Inscription Type

      reign mark

    • Inscription Position

      on base

    • Inscription Language

      Chinese

    • Inscription Content

      大清康熙年製

    • Inscription Transliteration

      Da Qing Kangxi nian zhi

    • Inscription Translation

      Made in the Qing dynasty, Kangxi reign

    • Inscription Comment

      Kangxi mark and period

• Curator's comments

  Published PDF date : Qing Kangxi 1662-1722Room 95 label text:

  PDF 529

  Jar with pale cobalt-blue glaze

  
  The whole vessel is covered with a light, cobalt-pigmented blue-tinged glaze sometimes called by the nineteenth century French connoisseur’s term clair de lune, or in Chinese 天青(tianqing ‘blue-green of the sky’). The base carries a Kangxi reign mark in underglaze blue.

  
  Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue mark and pale cobalt-blue glaze
  Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮
  Qing dynasty, Kangxi mark and period, AD 1622–1722

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• Bibliography

  • Medley 1975 Monochrome pl. 234
  • Medley 1973 p.16, no.529
  • Scott 1989 p.16, no.529

• Location

  On display: G95/dc45/sh2

• Acquisition name

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

• Department

  Asia

• Registration number

  PDF.529