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jar / cover
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Object type
Museum number
PDF,A.634
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Description
Small covered porcelain vase of meiping form. Underglaze blue with wide band of scrolling lotus flowers. Classic scrolls and overlapping petals on lid, with a bud-shaped knop. There is an inscription on the base.
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Culture/period
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Date
- 1426-1435
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Production place
- Made in: Jingdezhen
- (Asia,China,Jiangxi (province),Jingdezhen)
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Materials
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Technique
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Dimensions
- Height: 125 millimetres
- Diameter: 84 millimetres
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Inscriptions
Inscription Type
markInscription Language
ChineseInscription Comment
Six-character Xuande mark in a double ring in underglaze blue on the base
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Curator's comments
Published PDF date : Ming Xuande 1426-1435Room 95 label text:
PDF A634
Blue-and-white covered jar
This blue-and-white jar is decorated with a lotus scroll around the body. There is a six-character Xuande reign mark in underglaze blue in a double ring on the base. An extraordinary number of Jiangxi men were employed within the central government during the early to mid-fifteenth century, which may have contributed to maintaining Jingdezhen, located in north-eastern Jiangxi, as the main source of court ceramics
Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue decoration
Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮
Ming dynasty, Xuande mark and period, AD1426–35 -
Bibliography
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Location
On display: G95/dc18/sh2
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Acquisition name
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Department
Asia
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Registration number
PDF,A.634
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