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bowl
Object Type
bowl
Museum number
PDF.775
Description
Porcelain bowl with rounded sides and straight rim. The bowl has milky white glaze. There is a prunus tree in overglaze turquoise, green, yellow, red and brown enamel on the interior, and two groups of prunus branches with birds and a cresent moon on the exterior. There is a mark in underglaze blue on the base.
Cultures/periods
Ming dynasty
Production date
1600-1644
Production place
Made in:
Jingdezhen
Materials
porcelain
Technique
glazed
painted
underglazed
Dimensions
Diameter:
218 millimetres
Height:
78 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
Published PDF date : Date? Japan?
Room 95 label text: PDF 775 Bowl with apocryphal inscription This bowl has a six-character mark in a double circle in underglaze blue on the base. This reads宣德 癸丑年造 (Xuande guichou nian zao ‘made in the guichou year of Xuande’ [AD 1433]). Outside it is painted with birds on flowering branches and with a crescent moon. Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue mark and overglaze enamels Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮 Ming dynasty, about AD 1600–1644
PDF 775 偽託年款碗 此碗器底青花雙圈內署六字款識“宣德癸丑年造”(意為製作於宣德癸丑年,即1433年)。外壁繪花枝小鳥圖案,伴隨一輪新月。 瓷器,青花款,釉上彩 江西省景德鎮 明代,約1600-1644年
Bibliographic references
Feng 2006 / Illustrated Catalogue of Ming and Ming Style Polychrome Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art
(p.43, no.775)
Medley 1978 / Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Polychrome Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art
(p.58, no.204)
Riddell 1979 / Dated Chinese Antiquities 600-1650
(p.115, no.101)
Hobson 1934 / A Catalogue of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain in the Collection of Sir Percival David Bt., F.S.A.
(p. 131, pl. CXXX(a))
Location
On display
(G95/dc29/sh6)
Department
Asia
Registration number
PDF.775
Conservation
Treatment
: 17 Apr 2009