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Object Type
Museum number: PDF.867
Description: Porcelain bottle with a pear-shaped body and slender neck swelling into a six lobed bulb below the lip. The bottle has a fine white body. There are rocks, rose peonies, birds and bamboo in 'Gu Yue' style mixed enamel on the body, and a poetical inscription on the neck. Pair with PDF 868.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1736-1795 (?)
Production place: Made in: Jingdezhen (enamelled in Beijing)
Materials
Technique: glazed; painted
Dimensions: Height: 94 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Published PDF date : Qing Qianlong 1736-95; Room 95 label text: PDF 867 Bottle with a poem This miniature bottle has a four-character Qianlong mark in blue enamel on the base. Seals read 佳麗jiali (beautiful) and長春changchun (prolonged spring). Potters at the imperial kilns in Jingdezhen made the porcelain but painters decorated them in the Imperial Palace, Beijing, and fired them for a second time at a lower temperature. Formerly scholars called this type of top quality porcelains painted in the palace古月軒器 (Guyuexuan qi ‘Pavilion of the Ancient Moon wares’). Although the guyue seal appears on many pieces, these are now known as琺瑯彩(falangcai ‘foreign colours’) wares as the colours are believed to have been introduced to China through foreign Jesuits some of whom worked in the Forbidden City. Porcelain with falangcai-type enamels Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮 Qing dynasty, Qianlong blue enamel mark and period, AD 1736–1795; PDF 867 詩文瓶小瓶器底署乾隆四字藍料年款。有印文款“佳丽”（意為美丽）、“长春”（意為永恒的春天）兩方。此器為景德鎮御窯廠陶工製作素瓷，北京皇宮內匠師繪製圖案，而後二次低溫燒成。過去學者們將這一類宮廷所繪高品質瓷器稱為“古月軒器”（意為遠古月亮之軒堂所制器物）。儘管“古月”印文款在很多器物上都能夠見到，現在通常稱此類器物為“琺瑯彩”器（“外國彩”），因其彩料為耶穌會教士們傳入中國，一些教士供職在紫禁城。瓷器，琺瑯彩类型江西省景德鎮清代，乾隆，乾隆藍料款，1736-1795年
Bibliographic references: Scott 1991 / Illustrated Catalogue of Qing Enamelled Ware in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.39, no.867, illus p.18); Lady David 1973 / Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Enamelled Ware in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.23, no.867, pl. VII); Pierson & Barnes 2002 / A Collector's Vision: Ceramics for the Qianlong Emperor (p.87, no.74,) (pair with 868); Hobson 1934 / A Catalogue of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain in the Collection of Sir Percival David Bt., F.S.A. (p. 174, pl. CLXXIII(a)); Medley 1975 / Volume 7: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (Monochrome pl. 270)
Location: On display (G95/dc33/sh7)
Acquisition name
Acquisition notes: R. L.. Hobson 1934 records: From the Reginald Cory Collection. PDF card: Reginald Cory Collection
Department: Asia
Registration number: PDF.867

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