box
- Museum number
- PDF,A.405
- Description
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Porcelain round box. The box has a white body and cream white glaze. There are two dragons in relief on the lid. The foot ring, mouth rim, and the inside of the lid, are unglazed.
- Production date
- 18thC-19thC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 54 millimetres
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Height: 47 millimetres
- Curator's comments
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Published PDF date : Qing Kangxi 1662-1722
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Room 95 label text:
PDF A405
Box with two dragons in relief
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 1700–1900
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PDF A405
浮雕雙螭龍紋盒
1600年至1911年間的德化窰瓷器,以塑像和器皿為特色,胎體潔白有粉沙感,釉色閃青或呈乳白色。瓷胎中的鐵雜質極少,使得器物呈色白淨,事實上德化窯所使用胎土中的氧化鐵含量僅有0.5%。胎釉在窯火中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,以十九世紀法國鑒賞家所用的“中國白”一詞而聞名西方。
瓷器,透明釉
德化窯
福建省德化
清代,約1700-1900年
- Location
- On display (G95/dc34/sh2)
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- PDF,A.405