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• Object type

  • bottle

• Museum number

  PDF,B.555

• Description

  Pear-shaped porcelain bottle vase. Covered with powder-blue glaze with gilt lotus decoration around body, a lizard-like dragon round the neck and floral diaper band at base of neck. Base unglazed. Pair with B556.

• Culture/period

  • Qing dynasty
  • Kangxi

• Date

  • 1662-1722

• Production place

  • Made in: Jingdezhen
  • (Asia,China,Jiangxi (province),Jingdezhen)

• Materials

  • porcelain
  • gold

• Technique

  • glazed
  • gilded

• Dimensions

  • Height: 180 millimetres
  • Diameter: 100 millimetres

• Curator's comments

  Published PDF date : Qing 17th-18thCRoom 95 label text:

  PDF B555

  Bottle with ‘powder-blue’ glaze

  
  Potters blew the colour onto the glaze to decorate this bottle. Potters took a bamboo tube covered with silk gauze and blew ground cobalt through it onto the moist transparent glaze. After firing at a high-temperature, they added gilt designs. This type of Chinese monochrome was very popular in Europe where it was copied successfully in England at the Worcester and Bow porcelain factoris around 1760.

  
  Porcelain with transparent and powder-blue glazes and gilding
  Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮
  Qing dynasty, Kangxi period, AD1662–1722

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• Bibliography

  • Medley 1973 p.52, no.B555
  • Scott 1989 p.53, no.B555

• Location

  On display: G95/dc46/sh5

• Acquisition name

  • On loan from: Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art
  • Previous owner/ex-collection: Hon Mountstuart William Elphinstone (Medley 1973)

• Acquisition notes

  PDF card: 1952. Elphinstone Gift

• Department

  Asia

• Registration number

  PDF,B.555