incense-burner
- Museum number
- PDF.424
- Description
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Dehua porcelain incense burner with depressed globular body, straight neck, two loop handles and three small feet. The incense burner has creamy glaze with a faint pinkish tinge.
- Production date
- 18thC-19thC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 136 millimetres
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Height: 78 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Room 95 label text:
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Incense burner
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. Body and glaze fuse perfectly in the firing. 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. It has a six character mark in a rectangular frame on the base which is hard to decipher.
Porcelain with transparent glaze
Dehua ware 德化窯
Dehua, Fujian province 德化, 福建省
Qing dynasty, about AD 1700–1900
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白釉香爐
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%。此器胎釉完美地熔融結合在一起。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。器底長方形單框內有六字款識,難以識別。
瓷器,透明釉
德化窯
福建省德化
清代,約1700-1900年
- Location
- On display (G95/dc34/sh7)
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- PDF.424