dish BM-PDF.846

Period:Qing dynasty Production date:1720-1740
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, painted,

Dimensions:Diameter: 157 millimetres Height: 34 millimetres

Description:
Porcelain saucer-shaped dish with rounded sides and flat base. The dish has a fine white eggshell body. There is a landscape design of rocks, shrubs, flowering peony, dianthus pinks, and a pair of cockerels in dark brown, blue, and ‘famille rose’ palette enamel on the interior. Pair with PDF 847.
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Comments:Published PDF date : Qing late 18thC Room 95 label text:PDF 846Ruby-backed dish with cockerel A new opaque palette of overglaze colours developed in China around AD 1720. A new opaque white greatly increased the shades of colours available to the potters, and a new pink gave the overall palette a softer feel. Although pink, made using gold, was introduced from the West, European and Chinese craftsmen employed quite different recipes to achieve it. This group of egg-shell thin porcelains is known as ruby-backed wares because of the monochrome pink colour on their outer walls. The inscription in seal script on the back translates ‘Riches and Honour, abounding happiness reaching to Heaven’. Porcelain with fencai enamelsJingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮Qing dynasty, about AD 1720–1740 PDF 846胭脂紅公雞圖盤1720年左右，新的不透明釉上彩色系在中國發展起來。其中新的不透明白彩大大增加了陶工們可以使用的色調，而新的粉色給予了整個新色系更為柔和的質感。儘管以黃金配制的粉色彩料首先自西方傳入，但歐洲和中國工匠調配制造它們的方法卻有很大差異。這組似蛋殼般的薄胎瓷器因其外壁所施的單一粉色被稱為“胭脂紅”器。背面署篆書銘文意為功名富貴，洪福齊天。瓷器，粉彩江西省景德鎮清代，約1720-1740年