tea-bowl
- Museum number
- PDF,B.689
- Description
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Deep porcelain bowl. Underglaze blue and red with wide band depicting watery landscape with ducks, reeds and clouds in red and blue. Narrow band above with ten-character inscription in blue. Base partly glazed.
- Production date
- 1800-1949
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 100 millimetres
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Height: 85 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Published PDF date : Ming, early 17th century
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Room 95 label text:
PDF B689
Tea bowl with an inscription
This tea bowl is painted in underglaze cobalt blue and underglaze copper red with a riverscape with ducks, reeds and clouds. Above this is an inscription which reads月下一聲切空中八字挑 (Yue xia yi sheng qie, Kong zhong ba zi tiao' Beneath the moon a new sound is born, The Eight Signs have already been selected by the Almighty). The cup was made in Japan in imitation of a late Ming cup.
Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue and copper-red decoration
Japan 日本
About AD 1800–1949
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PDF B689
詩文茶碗
此茶碗用釉下鈷藍和銅紅繪蘆葦雲鴨河景。其上部書“月下一聲切,空中八字挑”,意為月光下出現新聲音,主宰者已經選好了八字。該器物日本製作,仿明代晚期瓷器。
瓷器,青花,釉裏紅
日本
約1800–1949年
- Location
- On display (G95/dc23/sh3)
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- PDF,B.689