cup BM-PDF.606

Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1506-1521
Materials:porcelain
Technique:underglazed

Dimensions:Diameter: 75 millimetres Height: 50 millimetres

Description:
Porcelain cup with straight sides and a low foot ring. There is a peach, a persimmon and a pomegranate in underglaze copper red on the exterior. There is a mark on the base.
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Comments:Published PDF date : Ming Zhengde 1506-1521 Room 95 label text:PDF 606Cup with three copper-red fruitsThis cup is decorated with three fruits: a peach, a persimmon and a pomegranate in underglaze red. The three fruits symbolise the Three Abundances: long life, happiness and children. In the sixteenth century, mostly potters at Jingdezhen substituted underglaze copper-red with overglaze iron-red which was much easier to control and caused less wastage when completing imperial orders. On the base is a four-character Zhengde reign mark in underglaze blue in a double ring.Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue and underglaze copper-redJingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮Ming dynasty, Zhengde mark and period, AD 1506–1521 PDF 606釉裏紅三果紋杯此杯以釉裏紅飾三種水果：桃子、柿子及石榴。三種水果寓意“三多”：長壽、幸福和多子。在十六世紀，因更易控制火候且降低廢品損耗，大多數陶工在完成宮廷派燒時，以釉上鐵紅替代釉下銅紅即釉裏紅。器底雙圈內署青花四字正德年款。瓷器，青花款，釉下銅紅江西省景德鎮明代，正德，正德款，1506-1521年