Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1573-1620
Materials:porcelain
Technique:underglazed
Dimensions:Diameter: 90 millimetres Height: 49 millimetres
Description:
Porcelain cup in form of lotus leaf with three small feet and a biscuit figure of a carp inside. Underglaze blue with leaf veins around outside and dense waterweeds inside.
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Comments:Published PDF date : Ming 17th century Room 95 label text:PDF A693Cup in the form of a lotus leafThis cup is modelled in the form of a lotus leaf with blue veins outside and with a biscuit fired fish inside. Chinese people regard paired fish as a rebus (visual pun) for abundance as the words for both fish 魚 and abundance 餘, are pronounced yu.Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue decoration and biscuit-firedJingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮Ming dynasty, Wanli period, AD 1573–1620 PDF A693荷葉杯此杯形似荷葉，外有青花葉脈，內有無釉露胎素燒的魚一條。中國人將魚視作富足的象徵，因“魚”與“餘”諧音。瓷器，青花，局部素燒澀胎江西省景德鎮明代，萬曆， 1573-1620年
Materials:porcelain
Technique:underglazed
Dimensions:Diameter: 90 millimetres Height: 49 millimetres
Description:
Porcelain cup in form of lotus leaf with three small feet and a biscuit figure of a carp inside. Underglaze blue with leaf veins around outside and dense waterweeds inside.
IMG
Comments:Published PDF date : Ming 17th century Room 95 label text:PDF A693Cup in the form of a lotus leafThis cup is modelled in the form of a lotus leaf with blue veins outside and with a biscuit fired fish inside. Chinese people regard paired fish as a rebus (visual pun) for abundance as the words for both fish 魚 and abundance 餘, are pronounced yu.Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue decoration and biscuit-firedJingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮Ming dynasty, Wanli period, AD 1573–1620 PDF A693荷葉杯此杯形似荷葉，外有青花葉脈，內有無釉露胎素燒的魚一條。中國人將魚視作富足的象徵，因“魚”與“餘”諧音。瓷器，青花，局部素燒澀胎江西省景德鎮明代，萬曆， 1573-1620年
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