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stem cup
Object Type
stem cup
Museum number
PDF,A.626
Description
Stem porcelain cup. Underglaze blue and red with incised five-clawed dragons in red against blue waves. Anhua horizontal dragons painted in slip on the interior.
Cultures/periods
Ming dynasty
Xuande
Production date
1426-1435
Production place
Made in:
Jingdezhen
Materials
porcelain
Technique
underglazed
incised
anhua
Dimensions
Diameter:
152 millimetres
Height:
105 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
Published PDF date : Ming Xuande 1426-1435
Room 95 label text: PDF A626 Blue-and-white stembowl with red dragons Potters incorporated all the latest early fifteenth century porcelain technology when making this stembowl. Craftsmen added an暗花 (anhua ‘secret or hidden decoration’) of raised slip, showing two five-clawed dragons chasing each other and their flaming pearls inside the cup in the cavetto. This pattern is only visible when held to the light. They decorated it outside with an incised design of five-clawed dragons coloured by underglaze copper-red against a dense pattern of underglaze cobalt-blue painted waves with white crests. Porcelain with incised, anhua, underglaze cobalt-blue and underglaze copper-red decoration Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮 Ming dynasty, Xuande mark and period, AD 1426–35
PDF A626 青花釉裏紅龍紋高足碗 陶工們製作這一高足碗時,融合使用了十五世紀早期所有的最新瓷器技術。工匠們在碗內部用凸起的泥漿(泥釉)裝飾暗花(意為秘密或隱藏裝飾),花紋為前后相追的兩條五爪龍戲珠,這一裝飾僅在光下可見。碗外部裝飾以劃花五爪龍紋,龍紋用釉下銅紅料上彩,背景為釉下鈷藍描繪的密集波濤紋,浪峰為白色。 瓷器,劃花,暗花,青花,釉裏紅 江西省景德鎮 明代,宣德,宣德款,1426-1435年
Bibliographic references
Pierson 2004 / Illustrated Catalogue of Underglaze Blue and Copper Red Decorated Porcelains in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art
(p.58, no.A626, colour p.36)
Medley 1976 / Illustrated Catalogue of Underglaze Blue and Copper Red Decorated Porcelains
(p.39, no.A626, pl.VI)
Scott 1989a / Imperial Taste - Chinese Ceramics from the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art
(p.63, no.33)
Pierson 2002 / Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art: A Guide to the Collection
(p.63, no.48)
Scott 1989b / Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art: A Guide to the Collection
(p.76, no.65)
Medley 1975 / Volume 7: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art
(Colour pl. 43 and p. 310)
Location
On display
(G95/dc59/s3)
Department
Asia
Registration number
PDF,A.626