wine-cup

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Museum number: PDF,A.749
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: Qing dynasty; Kangxi
Production date: 1662-1722
Production place: Made in: Jingdezhen
Materials
Technique: underglazed; painted
Dimensions: Diameter: 82 millimetres; Height: 40 millimetres
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Curator's comments: Published PDF date : Qing Kangxi 1662-1722; Room 95 label text: PDF A749 Doucai ‘Chicken cup’ In China, an image of a chicken is a rebus for good luck because the words for chicken 雞and lucky 吉are both pronounced ji. Artists depicted the theme of a hen pecking for food with her chicks first in paintings and these probably inspired the porcelain versions. This cup is a Qing dynasty, Kangxi period copy of a Ming doucai cup. There is six-character Kangxi mark in underglaze blue on the base. Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue and overglaze doucai-style enamels Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮 Qing dynasty, Kangxi mark and period, AD 1662–1722; PDF A749 鬥彩雞缸杯因爲與“吉”同音，雞的圖案在中國是吉祥的象征。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。這件瓷杯是清代康熙年間對明代鬥彩瓷杯的仿製。外底署青花六字康熙年款。瓷器，鬥彩（釉下鈷藍加釉上彩）江西省景德鎮清代，康熙，康熙款，1662-1722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.A749); Medley 1978 / Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Polychrome Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.46, no.147); Scott 1989a / Imperial Taste - Chinese Ceramics from the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.75, no.44); Pierson 2002 / Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art: A Guide to the Collection (p.73, no.62); Scott 1989b / Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art: A Guide to the Collection (p.85, no.79 (right)); Medley 1975 / Volume 7: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (Monochrome pl. 214); Pierson 2001 / Designs as Signs: Decoration and Chinese Ceramics (p. 54, no. 49); Feng 2006a / Ming Colours Polychrome Porcelain from Jingdezhen (pp 38-39, no. 10 (right))
Location: On display (G95/dc31/sh7)
Department: Asia
Registration number: PDF,A.749

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