cup BM-PDF-A.57

Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1465-1487
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed

Dimensions:Diameter: 81 millimetres Height: 55 millimetres

Description:
Guan-type ware fluted cup. White porcelain body covered in bluish-green glaze with two layers of close crackle, the wide layer stained black and the other ginger. Brown dressing applied to the mouth and the foot rim unglazed. Body reddish where exposed. There is an inscription on the base.
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Comments:Published PDF date : Ming Chenghua 1465-1487 Room 95 label text:PDF A57Lobed wine cup with guan-type glazeSir Percival David’s collection was inspired partly by a desire to acquire objects with a Chinese ‘imperial’ connection or made in Chinese ‘scholarly taste’. This wine cup, commissioned by the Chenghua emperor (AD1465–1487) and made at the imperial kilns in Jingdezhen with a copy of a 官 (guan ‘official’) celadon glaze invented in the Southern Song dynasty (AD 1127–1279) exemplifies both these interests. Archaeologists have excavated sherds of related Chenghua mark and period porcelain guan-type wares at Jingdezhen.Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue mark, guan-type crackled glaze and brown dressed foot and rim.Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮 Ming dynasty, Chenghua mark and period, AD1465–1487 PDF A57 仿官釉花形酒杯斐西瓦樂•大維德爵士的收藏，比較注重有中國皇室關聯或文人意趣的器物。此酒杯為成化皇帝（1465-1487年）派燒，景德鎮御器廠仿南宋（1127-1279年）官窯青釉器物製作，體現了這兩方面的興趣。考古學家曾於景德鎮發掘出成化本朝且帶有成化款的仿官釉器物殘片。瓷器，青花款，仿官開片釉，口沿及足部有褐釉江西省景德鎮明代，成化，成化款，1465-1487年