tea-bowl
- Museum number
- PDF,B.610
- Description
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Set of five tea-bowls. Underglaze blue with stylised flower sprays supporting shou characters. On the interior of each porcelain bowl is a similar flower spray and shou character in a double circle. There is an inscription on the base.
- Production date
- 17thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 93 millimetres
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Height: 50 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:
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Set of five cups with stylised flower sprays
As demand for the court declined, Jingdezhen potters eagerly accepted orders from middle-class customers in China, as well as exporting wares to the Middle East, Europe and Japan. These cups are table wares which were made in sets of five for Japanese clients. Outside they are painted with flowers. The bases have apocryphal大明年製 (da Ming nian zhi ‘made in the Great Ming period’) on their bases. Inside each one is a flower and a 壽 (shou ‘longevity’) character.
Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue decoration
Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮
Ming dynasty, about AD 1600–1630
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格式化折枝花紋杯(一套五件)
隨著宮廷對瓷器需求的下降,景德鎮的陶工們既熱切接受來自中國中產階層消費者的訂單,也出口產品至中東、歐洲及日本。這些杯子即為日本客戶訂燒的餐具,一套五件。外壁繪花卉紋。外底署“大明年製”寄托款。
瓷器,青花
江西省景德鎮
明代,約1600–1630年
- Location
- On display (G95/dc23/sh3)
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- PDF,B.610