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• Object type

  • cup

• Museum number

  PDF,A.582

• Description

  Porcelain Wine-cup. Covered outisde with cobalt blue glaze with four-clawed dragon scratched through to the body. Plain white inside and on base, in the centre of which is an artemisia leaf in blue.

• Culture/period

  • Qing dynasty
  • Kangxi

• Date

  • 1662-1722

• Production place

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

• Materials

  • porcelain

• Technique

  • underglazed

• Dimensions

  • Height: 50 millimetres
  • Diameter: 51 millimetres

• Inscriptions

  • • Inscription Type

      mark

    • Inscription Language

      Chinese

    • Inscription Comment

      Kangxi mark and period

• Curator's comments

  Published PDF date : Qing 19thCRoom 95 label text:

  PDF A582

  Cup with dragons

  
  This cup with everted rim has a blown on cobalt-blue glaze. A design of a four-clawed dragon is scratched through to the porcelain body. On the base is an artemisia leaf.

  
  Porcelain with a cobalt-blue glaze and decoration scratched through the glaze
  Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮
  Qing dynasty, Kangxi period, AD 1662–1722

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• Bibliography

  • Medley 1973 p.42, no.A582
  • Scott 1989 p.42, no.A582

• Location

  On display: G95/dc46/sh4

• Acquisition name

  • On loan from: Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art
  • Previous owner/ex-collection: Hon Mountstuart William Elphinstone (Medley 1973)

• Acquisition notes

  PDF card: Acquired 1952. Elphinstone Gift

• Department

  Asia

• Registration number

  PDF,A.582