Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1426-1435
Materials:porcelain, gold, lacquer,
Technique:glazed, lacquered, underglazed,
Subjects:leaf,flower lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 12.50 centimetres Height: 12.90 centimetres
Description:
Deep porcelain stem cup with underglaze blue decoration. The deep bell-shaped form of this stem cup is rather rare. It has rounded sides, an everted rim and a high hollow spreading stem. It is painted in underglaze blue inside with a ribbon-tied bunch of lotus flowers, buds and leaves in a double ring, and around the rim with a geometric border design which has blurred during the firing. Outside four large individual branches of flowering peony, possibly camellia, chrysanthemum and camellia are shown with overlapping lotus petals below. The foot is painted with two flowering branches and the rim, join of foot to bowl and foot are outlined with double blue lines. Below the exterior rim is a horizontal four-character Xuande reign mark. Three cracks emanating from the rim have been repaired with gold leaf and lacquer in the Far East prior to 1939.
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![图片[1]-cup BM-1939-1117.1-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00263261_001.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The shape of this deep stem cup may possibly have evolved from that of a Tibetan butter lamp made of sheet metal, but it could also have developed from the regular Chinese stem cup whose origins can be traced to the Tang dynasty.
Materials:porcelain, gold, lacquer,
Technique:glazed, lacquered, underglazed,
Subjects:leaf,flower lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 12.50 centimetres Height: 12.90 centimetres
Description:
Deep porcelain stem cup with underglaze blue decoration. The deep bell-shaped form of this stem cup is rather rare. It has rounded sides, an everted rim and a high hollow spreading stem. It is painted in underglaze blue inside with a ribbon-tied bunch of lotus flowers, buds and leaves in a double ring, and around the rim with a geometric border design which has blurred during the firing. Outside four large individual branches of flowering peony, possibly camellia, chrysanthemum and camellia are shown with overlapping lotus petals below. The foot is painted with two flowering branches and the rim, join of foot to bowl and foot are outlined with double blue lines. Below the exterior rim is a horizontal four-character Xuande reign mark. Three cracks emanating from the rim have been repaired with gold leaf and lacquer in the Far East prior to 1939.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The shape of this deep stem cup may possibly have evolved from that of a Tibetan butter lamp made of sheet metal, but it could also have developed from the regular Chinese stem cup whose origins can be traced to the Tang dynasty.
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