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• Object type

  • cup

• Museum number

  PDF,A.542

• Description

  Porcelain cup with rounded sides. The cup has copper red glaze on the exterior and bluish-white glaze on the interior and on the base.

• Culture/period

  • Qing dynasty
  • Kangxi

• Date

  • 1662-1722

• Production place

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

• Materials

  • porcelain

• Technique

  • underglazed

• Dimensions

  • Height: 47 millimetres
  • Diameter: 61 millimetres

• Curator's comments

  Published PDF date : Qing 18thCRoom 95 label text:

  PDF A542

  Cup with copper-red glaze

  
  This straight-sided cup is covered with a copper-red monochrome-glaze. The skills used to create these extraordinary red glazes were lost in China from the mid-fifteenth century until they were rediscovered in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The glaze has ‘crept’ at the rims of the cups to reveal the pure whiteness of the porcelain body.

  
  Porcelain with clear and copper-red glazes
  Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province江西省, 景德鎮
  Qing dynasty, Kangxi period, AD 1662–1722

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• Bibliography

  • Medley 1973 p.34, no.A542
  • Scott 1989 p.35, no.A542

• Location

  On display: G95/dc49/sh8

• Acquisition name

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

• Department

  Asia

• Registration number

  PDF,A.542