flute
- Museum number
- PDF.433
- Description
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Dehua porcelain flute. There is gilt decorating the ends and a faded yellow silk tassel attached.
- Production date
- 19thC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 23 millimetres
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Width: 432 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Room 95 label text:
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Flute with yellow silk tassel
Dehua wares of the period AD 1600–1911 are typified by figures and vessels with a granular sugary white body and either a blue tinged or creamy white glaze. The pure whiteness of these ceramics is due to the relative absence of iron impurities in the body - indeed the clay used contains only half a percent of ferric oxide. This flute has the character 清 Qing meaning pure in the mouthpiece.
Porcelain with gilt decoration and transparent glaze and silk tassel
Dehua ware 德化窯
Dehua, Fujian province 德化, 福建省
Qing dynasty, about AD 1800–1900
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白釉笛（附黃絲穗）
1600年至1911年間的德化器物以器皿和各類塑像為特色，其胎體潔白，質如極細沙，釉色閃青或呈奶油白色。鐵元素的顯著降低使得器物呈色更為白淨，事實上胎土的氧化鐵含量僅有0.5%。此笛在口部有銘文“清”字。
瓷器，鍍金，透明釉，絲穗
德化窯
福建省德化
清代，約1800-1900年
- Location
- On display (G95/dc34/sh1)
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- PDF.433
