vase
- Museum number
- PDF.408
- Description
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Porcelain vase with small garlic-head and a depressed globular body. White. There is a dragon in relief curling round the neck of the vase holding a leafy branch in its mouth. The vase was fired on the footring, which is glazed and has grit adhering to it.
- Production date
- 19thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 197 millimetres
- Curator's comments
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Room 95 label text:
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Vase with dragon curled around the neck
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 1800–1900
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白釉貼塑龍紋瓶
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1800-1900年
- Location
- On display (G95/dc34/sh6)
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- PDF.408