ink-stone BM-PDF.692

Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1573-1620 (?)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:underglazed

Dimensions:Diameter: 112 millimetres Height: 31 millimetres

Description:
Circular porcelain ink-slab with a channel around the top, and a recessed base. The ink-slab has an unglazed area in the centre of the top. There are classic scrolls in reserve against an underglaze cobalt blue ground. There is an inscription on the base in underglaze blue with traces of gold pigment.
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Comments:Published PDF date : Ming Wanli AD 1580 Room 95 label text:PDF 692Ink stone with inscriptionThis ink stone is inscribed 上宮天水郡萬曆八年製 (Shanggong Tianshui jun Wanli banian zhi ‘made in the eighth year of Wanli [AD1580] at Shanggong in Tianshui County’). Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue decoration Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮Ming dynasty, Wanli mark and period, dated equivalent to AD 1580 PDF 692 銘文硯硯臺有銘文“上宮天水郡萬曆八年制”（意為萬曆八年，即1580年，製作于天水郡上宮）。瓷器，青花江西省景德鎮明代，萬曆，萬曆款，紀年為1580年