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• Object type

  • cup

• Museum number

  PDF,A.567

• Description

  Two porcelain cups. Covered in bright pale yellow glaze outside and plain white glaze inside and on base, with inscription.

• Culture/period

  • Yongzheng
  • Qing dynasty

• Date

  • 1723-1735

• Production place

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

• Materials

  • porcelain

• Technique

  • glazed

• Dimensions

  • Height: 37 millimetres
  • Diameter: 51 millimetres

• Inscriptions

  • • Inscription Type

      mark

    • Inscription Language

      Chinese

    • Inscription Comment

      Six-character Yongzheng mark

• Curator's comments

  Published PDF date : Qing Yongzheng 1723-1735Room 95 label text:

  PDF A567

  Cups with yellow glaze

  
  Two porcelain cups demonstrating an attractive use of a monochrome yellow glaze at Jingdezhen. This colour glaze was used to decorate court porcelain for some five hundred years of the imperial era in China from AD 1403 to AD 1911. Potters fired the cups twice, first at a porcelain temperature of around 1280 to 1320 °C and then in a second, lower-temperature firing to vitrify the lead-fluxed, iron-pigmented glaze. The bases have a six-character underglaze blue reign mark of the Yongzheng period.

  
  Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue marks, transparent and yellow glazes
  Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮
  Qing dynasty, Yongzheng mark and period, 1723–1735

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• Bibliography

  • Medley 1973 p.39, no.A567 (one cup only)
  • Scott 1989 p.39, no.A567

• Location

  On display: G95/dc37/sh3

• Acquisition name

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

• Department

  Asia

• Registration number

  PDF,A.567