vase
- Museum number
- PDF,A.89
- Description
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Guan type porcelain octagonal vase in form of ancient bronze hu with two tubular handles. The vase is painted with dark brown slip and covered in thick blue-grey glaze with faint crackle. There is an inscription on the base, which is glazed. The foot rim is unglazed. Pair with PDF A90.
- Production date
- 1736-1795
- Dimensions
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Height: 144 millimetres
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Width: 83 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Published PDF date : Qing Qianlong
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Room 95 label text:
PDF A89
Vase in the form of an ancient bronze vessel called a hu
This vase is of octagonal section with an eight-sided foot and two tubular handles on either side of the neck. Potters painted the pure white porcelain body on the foot with a dark brown slip and covered the whole vessel with a thick opaque blue-grey guan-type glaze with faint crackle. The base is marked with a six-character Qianlong seal mark. Throughout the sixty-year reign of the Qianlong emperor, seal script base marks predominated over standard script marks. The Qianlong emperor shared the antiquarian tastes of his father, the Yongzheng emperor, for ancient bronze shapes and Song-style celadon glazes.
Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue mark and celadon glaze
Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province江西省, 景德鎮
Qing dynasty, Qianlong mark and period, AD1736–95
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PDF A89
仿官青釉壺
此瓶呈八方形,有八邊形足,頸兩側附貫耳。陶工以深褐色護胎釉掩蓋圈足底的白瓷胎,器身施宋代官窯風格的藍灰色乳濁厚釉,隱約可見開片。外底署乾隆六字篆書款。縱觀乾隆皇帝六十年的統治期,器物外底篆書年號款的使用遠勝過楷書款。乾隆皇帝承繼了其父雍正皇帝的尚古審美品位,喜愛遠古青銅器造型和宋代風格的青釉。
瓷器,青花款,青釉
江西省景德鎮
清代,乾隆,乾隆款,1736-1795年
- Bibliographic references
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Pierson 1999 / Illustrated catalogue of Ru, Guan, Jun, Guangdong and Yixing wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (pp 75-76, no.A89)
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Yorke Hardy 1953 / Tung, Ju, Kuan, Chun, Kuang-tung & Glazed I-hsing Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.43, no.A89)
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Pierson & Barnes 2002 / A Collector's Vision: Ceramics for the Qianlong Emperor (p.28, no.19 (and base)) (pair with A90)
- Location
- On display (G95/dc64/s4)
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- PDF,A.89