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wine-cup
Object Type
wine-cup
Museum number
PDF,A.751
Description
Small porcelain wine-cup. Decorated in doucai style with underglaze blue outlines and washes and overglaze red, lime green and aubergine enamels. Design on the exterior of landscape with gentleman scholar leaning on a blossoming prunus tree with crane nearby. There is a mark on the base.
Cultures/periods
Qing dynasty
Yongzheng
Production date
1723-1735
Production place
Made in:
Jingdezhen
Materials
porcelain
Technique
doucai
underglazed
painted
Dimensions
Diameter:
78 millimetres
Height:
45 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
Published PDF date : Qing Yongzheng 1723-1735
Room 95 label text: PDF A751 Doucai cup with man leaning on a prunus tree This Qing doucai-style cup is painted with a man leaning on a blossoming prunus tree, attended by a crane. On the base is a six-character Chenghua mark in a double rectangle in underglaze blue. Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue and overglaze enamels in doucai-style Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮 Qing dynasty, Yongzheng mark and period, AD 1723–1735
PDF A751 鬥彩文人倚松圖杯 這件清代鬥彩瓷杯描繪一人倚在開花梅樹上,旁有一鶴相伴(梅妻鶴子)。外底雙方框內署青花六字成化年款。 瓷器,鬥彩(釉下鈷藍和釉上彩) 江西省景德鎮 清代,雍正,雍正款,1723-1735年
Bibliographic references
Feng 2006 / Illustrated Catalogue of Ming and Ming Style Polychrome Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art
(p.60&65, no.A751)
(colour p.40)
Medley 1978 / Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Polychrome Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art
(p.51, no.169)
Medley 1975 / Volume 7: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art
(Monochrome pl. 250)
Pierson 2001 / Designs as Signs: Decoration and Chinese Ceramics
(p. 56, no. 51)
Location
On display
(G95/dc31/sh7)
Department
Asia
Registration number
PDF,A.751