incense-burner
- Museum number
- PDF.423
- Description
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Dehua porcelain incense burner in the form of an archaic bronze 'gui' with depressed globular body and spreading mouth with two handles at the sides. The incense burner has creamy glaze.
- Production date
- 18thC-19thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 43 millimetres
- Curator's comments
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Room 95 label text:
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Incense burner modelled after bronze ‘gui’
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.
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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白釉簋式香爐
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。
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.423