Teacup in underglaze blue with auspicious motifs, Ming dynasty, Wanli reign (1573-1620)-China Archive

Image Number: K1B016237N000000000PAF
Dynasty: Ming dynasty
Category: Ceramics
Function: Container
Material: Mineral/ceramic/porcelain
Description:
Piekou tea bell is shaped, and the white glaze inside the vessel has no lines. The blue and white paintings outside the vessel are three groups of “annual harvest” pictures, which are respectively double catfish, chime patterns, bees, lanterns, and rice ears. The homophonic sound is taken as the auspicious implication of “annual surplus, Qingfeng harvest”. The body is light, thin and thin, the glaze is gray and green, and the mouth and foot have two green lines. The outsole is a convex tip, and the white glaze blue and white book “made in the year of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty” is a six character two line fake deposit. The tea bell is obviously a imitated work of Wanli official kiln in the late Ming Dynasty, but it is finely made and collected in Jingyang Palace where Ming Dynasty porcelain is stored. As a tea bell style in the late Ming Dynasty, it is also precious. On the Spot Check Report or according to the old signature of the Qing Palace, it was determined as “two tea bells for young people to arrive at the annual peak” (hence Porcelain 016237, hence Porcelain 016238). “Year after year” auspicious patterns are commonly used in blue and white works and colorful works of Wanli. Such patterns are similar to those of Fengdeng