seal
- Museum number
- PDF.426
- Description
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Dehua porcelain square seal surmounted by a modelled seated lion. The seal is stained red, and unglazed.
- Production date
- 18thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 71 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Room 95 label text:
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Seal with seated lion knob
Dehua wares of the period AD 1600–1911 are typified by figures and vessels with a granular sugary white body and either a blue tinged or creamy white glaze. The pure whiteness of these ceramics is due to the relative absence of iron impurities in the body - indeed the clay used contains only half a percent of ferric oxide. Plain white porcelains from the Dehua kilns in Fujian, south-eastern China are known in the West by the nineteenth-century French connoisseurs’ term Blanc de Chine.
Porcelain with transparent glaze
Dehua ware 德化窯
Dehua, Fujian province 德化, 福建省
Qing dynasty, about AD 1700–1800
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白釉坐獅鈕印
1600年至1911年間的德化器物以器皿和各類塑像為特色,其胎體潔白,質如極細沙,釉色閃青或呈奶油白色。鐵元素的顯著降低使得器物呈色更為白淨,事實上胎土的氧化鐵含量僅有0.5%。中國東南部福建德化窯生產的素白瓷,在西方以十九世紀法國鑒賞家所用的“中國白”一詞而聞名。
瓷器,透明釉
德化窯
福建省德化
清代,約1700-1800年
- Location
- On display (G95/dc34/sh2)
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- PDF.426