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bowl
Object Type
bowl
Museum number
PDF,A.647
Description
Porcelain bowl. Underglaze blue with wide band of scrolling flowers and leaves above a band of overlapping petals. Wide band of scrolling flowers and leaves on inside, including peony and camellia. Roundel with single chrysanthemum in centre. There is an inscription on the base.
Cultures/periods
Ming dynasty
Chenghua
Production date
1465-1487
Production place
Made in:
Jingdezhen
Materials
porcelain
Technique
underglazed
Dimensions
Diameter:
153 millimetres
Height:
70 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
Published PDF date : Ming Chenghua
Room 95 label text: PDF A647 ‘Palace’ bowl with flowers of the four seasons Porcelain decorators at the imperial kilns painted the cobalt blue motifs in smooth washes of varying thickness, creating scrolling flower and leaf designs. The cobalt is finely pulverised and evenly applied, in contrast to the fourteenth and early fifteenth century when unevenly ground cobalt fired black in some areas and pale blue in others. This bowl shows gardenia scrolls outside and inside is a composite flower scroll of the four seasonal flowers. Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue decoration Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province江西省, 景德鎮 Ming dynasty, Chenghua mark and period, AD1465–87
PDF A647 四季花卉紋宮碗 御窯的瓷器畫師用濃淡不同的鈷藍料嫻熟流暢地描繪裝飾,主題為纏枝花葉紋。鈷料研磨細致,施用均勻,和十四十五世紀形成對比,那時的鈷料研磨不均勻,有的地方燒為黑色,有的地方則為淡藍。本瓷碗外部為梔子花紋,內部為四季花卉的組合纏枝花。 瓷器,青花 江西省景德鎮 明代,成化, 成化款,1465-1487年
Bibliographic references
Pierson 2004 / Illustrated Catalogue of Underglaze Blue and Copper Red Decorated Porcelains in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art
(p.62, no.A647, front cover)
(reign mark, p.115)
Medley 1976 / Illustrated Catalogue of Underglaze Blue and Copper Red Decorated Porcelains
(p.43, no.A647)
Krahl & Harrison-Hall 2009 / Chinese Ceramics: Highlights of the Sir Percival David Collection
(pp 72-73, no.36)
Medley 1975 / Volume 7: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art
(Monochrome pl. 108)
Location
On display
(G95/dc57/s1)
Department
Asia
Registration number
PDF,A.647
Conservation
Treatment
: 10 Mar 2009