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bowl

• Object type

  • bowl

• Museum number

  PDF.528

• Description

  Porcelain hemispherical bowl. The bowl has pinkish peach bloom glaze derived from copper, mottled darker pink and bright moss green, with white at the rim. 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: 46 millimetres
  • Diameter: 95 millimetres

• Inscriptions

  • • Inscription Type

      reign mark

    • Inscription Position

      on base

    • 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

      Xuande mark but Kangxi period

• Curator's comments

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

  PDF 528

  Bowl with copper-red glaze

  
  This bowl is a Qing dynasty, Kangxi period, copy of a Ming Xuande bowl with copper red glaze. On the base it carries an apocryphal underglaze blue Xuande mark.

  
  Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue mark transparent and copper-red glazes
  Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province江西省, 景德鎮
  Qing dynasty, Kangxi period, AD 1662–1722

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• Bibliography

  • Medley 1973 p.16, no.528
  • Scott 1989 p.16, no.528

• Location

  On display: G95/dc48/sh2

• Acquisition name

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

• Department

  Asia

• Registration number

  PDF.528