water-pot
- Museum number
- PDF,A.508
- Description
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Porcelain water-pot of beehive form. The water-pot has uneven yellow enamel glaze with fine crazing over a thin layer of high-fired glaze. There are three archaic dragon roundels incised on the exterior. There is an inscription on the base, which is glazed.
- Production date
- 1912-1949
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 124 millimetres
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Height: 80 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Published PDF date : Qing Kangxi 1662-1722
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Room 95 label text:
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Water pot with archaic dragon roundels
This porcelain water pot is unusual. It is made in a beehive shape which is more familiar in the Kangxi period made with copper-red peach bloom glaze. The base has an apocryphal six-character underglaze blue reign mark of the Kangxi period.
Porcelain, incised, with underglaze cobalt-blue mark, transparent and yellow glazes
Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮
Republican Period, AD 1911–1949
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仿古團龍紋水丞
此瓷水丞(太白尊)不同尋常。其蜂巢狀造型,於康熙時期的銅紅色桃花片釉器物中更為常見。外底署青花六字康熙寄託年款。
瓷器,劃花,青花款,透明釉,黃釉
江西省景德鎮
民國,1912-1949年
- Location
- On display (G95/dc41/sh8)
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- PDF,A.508