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figure
Object Type
figure
Museum number
PDF,A.85
Description
Yixing stoneware figure of a duck in seated position, modelled in two sections joined horizontally. The figure has a pale buff body and thick duck egg blue glaze with close crackle. The bill and feet are covered in reddish-brown slip and the eye is painted in black glaze. The base is unglazed.
Cultures/periods
Qing dynasty
Production date
1736-1795
Production place
Made in:
Yixing
Materials
stoneware
Technique
glazed
Dimensions
Height:
114 millimetres
Width:
179 millimetres
Depth:
72 millimetres
Curator's comments
PDF A85 瓷鴨 這件瓷鴨以分体粘合法制成。淺色的炻胎以化妝土裝飾使喙和蹼的部分使其看起來頗類紫褐色的宜興器。瓷鴨原本置於木雕底座之上。動物造型的瓷器在18世紀的歐洲非常流行但在中國的歷史更為久遠。宜興窯位於江蘇省,以烧造茶具以及文人用品為主,在18世紀也會燒造一些创新性的瓷器。 炻器,藍綠開片釉,鐵褐色化妝土 宜兴,江苏省 清代,1736-1795年
Published PDF date : Qing 18thC
Room 95 label text: PDF A85 Model of a duck This model of a duck was made in sections. It has a pale stoneware body which has been slip painted to look like purple-brown Yixing clay for the feet and beak. Originally it would have been displayed on a carved wooden stand. Models of birds were popular items for display in 18th century Europe but they have a much longer history in China. Yixing kilns in Jiangsu province mostly made tea wares and objects for a scholar's table but in the 18th century they also made novelty items. Stoneware with crackled blue-green glaze and iron-brown slip. Yixing, Jiangsu province Qing dynasty, AD 1736-1795
Bibliographic references
Pierson 1999 / Illustrated catalogue of Ru, Guan, Jun, Guangdong and Yixing wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art
(p.73, no.A85, colour, p.42)
Yorke Hardy 1953 / Tung, Ju, Kuan, Chun, Kuang-tung & Glazed I-hsing Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art
(p.42, no.A85)
Medley 1975 / Volume 7: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art
(Monochrome pl. 244)
Royal Academy of Arts 1935-1936 / International Exhibition of Chinese Art 1935-1936
(Cat. no. 1843)
(Lent by Dr Herbert von Klemperer, Berlin)
Ausstellung chinesischer Kunst / Ausstellung chinesischer Kunst
(Cat. no. 1054)
(https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/adk_soa_1929_174/0388/image)
Location
Not on display
Department
Asia
Registration number
PDF,A.85