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lamp
Object Type
lamp
Museum number
PDF,B.615
Description
Lamp constructed of three detachable parts with saucer base, long cylindrical tube and foliated porcelain cup at the top. Underglaze blue with scrolling flowers around sides of saucer and porcelain cup. Similar flowers on shaft with two phoenixes. There is an inscription on the base.
Cultures/periods
Qing dynasty
Production date
18thC
Production place
Made in:
Jingdezhen
Materials
porcelain
Technique
underglazed
Dimensions
Height:
203 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
Published PDF date : Ming Wanli 1573-1620
Room 95 label text: PDF B615 Lamp constructed of three parts This lamp is very unusual. It is made of three detachable parts and decorated with flower scrolls. On the base is an apocryphal six-character underglaze blue Chenghua reign mark. Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue decoration Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮 Qing dynasty, about AD 1700–1800
PDF B615 三組合瓷燈 這件瓷燈非常罕見。其由可以分開的三部分組裝而成,裝飾以纏枝花卉。外底署青花六字成化寄托年款。 瓷器,青花 江西省景德鎮 清代,約1700–1800年
Bibliographic references
Pierson 2004 / Illustrated Catalogue of Underglaze Blue and Copper Red Decorated Porcelains in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art
(pp 79-80, no.B615)
Medley 1976 / Illustrated Catalogue of Underglaze Blue and Copper Red Decorated Porcelains
(p.56, no.B615)
Hobson, Rackham & King 1931 / Chinese Ceramics in Private Collections
(p. 170, Fig. 311)
Location
On display
(G95/dc24/sh9)
Department
Asia
Registration number
PDF,B.615