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jar / cover

• Object type

  • jar
  • cover

• Museum number

  PDF,A.634

• 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.

• Culture/period

  • Xuande
  • Ming dynasty

• Date

  • 1426-1435

• Production place

  • Made in: Jingdezhen
  • (Asia,China,Jiangxi (province),Jingdezhen)

• Materials

  • porcelain

• Technique

  • underglazed

• Dimensions

  • Height: 125 millimetres
  • Diameter: 84 millimetres

• Inscriptions

  • • Inscription Type

      mark

    • Inscription Language

      Chinese

    • Inscription Comment

      Six-character Xuande mark in a double ring in underglaze blue on the base

• 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

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• Bibliography

  • Medley 1976 p.40, no.A634, pl.VI
  • Pierson 2004 p.59, no.A634

• Location

  On display: G95/dc18/sh2

• Acquisition name

  • On loan from: Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art

• Department

  Asia

• Registration number

  PDF,A.634