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Object Type
Museum number: PDF.842
Description: Porcelain saucer-shaped dish. The dish has a fine white body. There is a river scene containing a boat and two figures in the foreground, a pagoda in the middle distance in pale ink-like enamel, and the sun and slight details in red enamel in the centre of the interior. Pair with PDF 843.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 18thC
Production place: Made in: Jingdezhen
Materials
Technique: glazed; painted
Dimensions: Diameter: 200 millimetres; Height: 55 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Published PDF date : Qing 18thC; Room 95 label text: PDF 842 Dish with a river scene This dish is painted in ink-like black enamel, with a river scene showing a boat and two figures in the foreground and a pagoda in the middle distance. Some details are picked out in iron red. It is a pair with PDF 842. There is a four-character hallmark on the base雅雨堂製 (Yayu tang zhi ‘Made for the Hall of Gentle Rain’) in a single column in iron-red. Porcelain with overglaze enamels Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮 Qing dynasty, about AD 1700–1800; PDF 842 河景圖盤此盤以墨彩繪河景圖，前景為一艘船及兩個人，中景為一座塔。一些細部以礬紅彩裝飾。與PDF843為一對。器底署礬紅彩單行四字款“雅雨堂制”（意為輕柔的雨之廳堂製作）。瓷器，釉上彩江西省景德鎮清代，約1700-1800年
Bibliographic references: Scott 1991 / Illustrated Catalogue of Qing Enamelled Ware in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.33, no.842); Lady David 1973 / Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Enamelled Ware in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.18, no.842); Wilson 1998 / Rare Marks on Chinese Ceramics (pp 102-103, no.41); Scott 1989a / Imperial Taste - Chinese Ceramics from the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.117, Fig.3); Scott 1989b / Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art: A Guide to the Collection (p.105, no.109 (pair)); Pierson & Barnes 2002 / A Collector's Vision: Ceramics for the Qianlong Emperor (p.77, no.64 (and base)) (pair with 843); Medley 1975 / Volume 7: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (Monochrome pl. 275); Pierson 2001 / Designs as Signs: Decoration and Chinese Ceramics (p. 52, no. 47)
Location: On display (G95/dc32/sh7)
Acquisition name
Department: Asia
Registration number: PDF.842

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