wine-cup

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Object Type: wine-cup
Museum number: PDF,A.748
Description: Porcelain 'chicken cup' wine-cup. Decorated in doucai style with underglaze blue washes and outlines and overglaze green, red, yellow, and brown enamels. Design on the exterior of rooster, hen and chicks with lilies and peony shrubs behind rocks. There is a mark on the base.
Cultures/periods: Ming dynasty; Chenghua (reign)
Production date: 1465-1487
Production place: Made in: Jingdezhen
Materials: porcelain
Technique: underglazed; painted
Dimensions: Diameter: 83 millimetres; Height: 38 millimetres
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Curator's comments: Published PDF date : Ming Chenghua 1465-1487; Room 95 label text: PDF A748 Doucai ‘Chicken cup‘ Artists depicted the theme of a hen pecking for food with her chicks first in paintings and these probably inspired the porcelain versions. Decorators used layers of coloured enamels to suggest different textures, for example the cockerels’ feathers are indicated with tiny red strokes and the hen’s wing is outlined in red against her yellow feathers. This is several hundred years before the development of a palette of opaque enamels which would allow shading. Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue and overglaze enamel decoration Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province江西省, 景德鎮 Ming dynasty, Chenghua mark and period, AD1465–87; PDF A748 鬥彩雞缸杯母雞帶著小雞們啄食的藝術主題，首先見于繪畫，這或許啓發了瓷器上的紋樣設計。畫瓷藝人用不同層次的顏色釉彩來體現不同的質感：如小公雞的羽毛用細小的紅彩筆觸，母雞的翅膀以紅彩勾勒再用黃彩敷染羽毛。而在幾百年之後，才發展出現了以不透明的釉彩進行多層渲染的技法。瓷器，青花，釉上彩江西省景德鎮明代，成化，成化款，1465-1487年
Bibliographic references: Feng 2006 / Illustrated Catalogue of Ming and Ming Style Polychrome Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.60, no.A748); Medley 1978 / Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Polychrome Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.14, no.7); Krahl & Harrison-Hall 2009 / Chinese Ceramics: Highlights of the Sir Percival David Collection (pp 74-75, no.37); Scott 1989a / Imperial Taste - Chinese Ceramics from the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.73, no.42); Pierson 2002 / Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art: A Guide to the Collection (p.73, no.61); Scott 1989b / Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art: A Guide to the Collection (p.85, no.79 (left)); Medley 1975 / Volume 7: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (Monochrome pl. 110); Pierson 2001 / Designs as Signs: Decoration and Chinese Ceramics (p. 54, no. 49); Feng 2006a / Ming Colours Polychrome Porcelain from Jingdezhen (pp 22-23, no. 10 (left))
Location: On display (G95/dc60)
Department: Asia
Registration number: PDF,A.748

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