stem cup
- Museum number
- PDF,A.704
- Description
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Porcelain stem cup . Decorated in wucai style, with underglaze blue and overglaze red, green, ochre and black enamels. Medallion with floral roundel inside in centre, with boys running with kites and banners around sides. On outside, boys playing among flowering shrubs. Flower sprays and ruyi-shaped clouds around stem. Base closed and glazed, with mark.
- Production date
- 16thC-17thC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 98 millimetres
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Height: 80 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Published PDF date : Ming Wanli 1573-1620
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Room 95 label text:
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Stem cup with boys playing
Potters decorated this stem cup in a twice-fired technique called 五彩 (wucai ‘five colours’) composed of underglaze blue and overglaze red, yellow, and green. Chinese people regard genre scenes of children playing as auspicious, representing a wish for many sons. There is an apocryphal Xuande mark on the base in underglaze blue.
Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue and overglaze wucai enamels
Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province江西省, 景德鎮
Ming dynasty, Wanli period, AD 1573–1620
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嬰戲圖高足杯
陶工用二次燒成的五彩技術裝飾此高足杯,包括第一次的釉下青花及第二次的釉上紅、黃、綠彩。中國人將嬰戲圖樣式視作吉祥,寓意期盼多子。外底署青花宣德寄託年款。
瓷器,青花,釉上五彩
江西省景德鎮
明代,萬歷,1573–1620年
- Location
- On display (G95/dc27/sh8)
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- PDF,A.704