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- Museum number
- PDF,A.785
- Description
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Miniature porcelain jar of globular form. Decorated in underglaze blue and overglaze red, yellow, green and black enamels. Design of blue fish swimming over green and white waves on yellow ground. Stylised lotus panels around rim in red, green and black. There is a mark on the base.
- Production date
- 18thC-19thC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 43 millimetres
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Height: 28 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Published PDF date : Qing Kangxi 1662-1722
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Room 95 label text:
PDF A785
Miniature jar with blue fish on a yellow ground
Potters fired this tiny jar twice. Once to fix the underglaze blue fish and again for the polychrome waves, yellow ground and detailing around the neck. They also added an apocryphal Jiajing reign mark to the base. Chinese people regard fish as a rebus (visual pun) for abundance as the words for both fish 魚 and abundance 餘, are pronounced yu.
Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue and overglaze enamel decoration in wucai style
Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province江西省, 景德鎮
Qing dynasty, about AD 1700–1900
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PDF A785
黃地青花魚紋小罐
陶工將此小罐二次燒成,第一次燒釉下青花魚紋,然后燒多彩水波、黃地及小罐頸部的花紋裝飾。外底署嘉靖偽托款。中國人將魚作為富足的象徵,因“魚”與“餘”諧音。
瓷器,青花,釉上五彩
江西省景德鎮
清代,約1700–1900年
- Location
- On display (G95/dc27/sh9)
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- PDF,A.785