Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1465-1487
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, doucai, underglazed,
Subjects:lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 6.80 centimetres Height: 7.60 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain stem cup with decoration in underglaze blue and overglaze enamel in ‘doucai’ style. This extremely delicate stem cup is one of the most precious and valuable porcelains ever created. It has a round bowl with sides which gently flare out towards the rim and a hollow flared stem. Outside a design is outlined in underglaze blue and infilled with pale underglaze blue, yellow, red and green enamels on a plain blue-white glaze with a yellowish cast. Four lotus flowers with tiny buds are depicted with the tips of their leaves forming into roundels. In between, pendant from the rim and around the join of foot to bowl, is a motif combining three comma spirals with round dots at the tips. Inside the cup is glazed but decorated with only a single underglaze blue line around the mouth. Double underglaze blue lines adorn the outer edge of the mouth and foot. Inside the foot is a horizontal six-character unframed underglaze blue Chenghua reign mark read from right to left. Inside the stem it is covered with a yellow-tinged blue-white glaze. It has a tiny chip at the rim.
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![图片[1]-stem cup BM-1930-0421.7-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00355193_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-stem cup BM-1930-0421.7-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00256774_001.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Doucai [interlocking colours] was not invented, as was once thought, in the Chenghua era but was first made in the Xuande reign. In November 1988 two Xuande marked doucai dishes decorated with mandarin ducks on a lotus pond were found under the west wall of the Ming imperial factory. Another blue-and-white Xuande mark and period bowl with a lotus pond and mandarin duck design in polychrome enamels is in the collection of the Sakyas (Sajia Si) Monastery in Tibet. Production continued in the Interregnum period, as evidenced by a doucai bowl decorated with a lotus pond design excavated from the Zhengtong-Tianshun remains at Dongsiling, but was perfected in the Chenghua reign. A stem cup of this type was excavated from the late Chenghua strata at Jingdezhen.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, doucai, underglazed,
Subjects:lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 6.80 centimetres Height: 7.60 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain stem cup with decoration in underglaze blue and overglaze enamel in ‘doucai’ style. This extremely delicate stem cup is one of the most precious and valuable porcelains ever created. It has a round bowl with sides which gently flare out towards the rim and a hollow flared stem. Outside a design is outlined in underglaze blue and infilled with pale underglaze blue, yellow, red and green enamels on a plain blue-white glaze with a yellowish cast. Four lotus flowers with tiny buds are depicted with the tips of their leaves forming into roundels. In between, pendant from the rim and around the join of foot to bowl, is a motif combining three comma spirals with round dots at the tips. Inside the cup is glazed but decorated with only a single underglaze blue line around the mouth. Double underglaze blue lines adorn the outer edge of the mouth and foot. Inside the foot is a horizontal six-character unframed underglaze blue Chenghua reign mark read from right to left. Inside the stem it is covered with a yellow-tinged blue-white glaze. It has a tiny chip at the rim.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Doucai [interlocking colours] was not invented, as was once thought, in the Chenghua era but was first made in the Xuande reign. In November 1988 two Xuande marked doucai dishes decorated with mandarin ducks on a lotus pond were found under the west wall of the Ming imperial factory. Another blue-and-white Xuande mark and period bowl with a lotus pond and mandarin duck design in polychrome enamels is in the collection of the Sakyas (Sajia Si) Monastery in Tibet. Production continued in the Interregnum period, as evidenced by a doucai bowl decorated with a lotus pond design excavated from the Zhengtong-Tianshun remains at Dongsiling, but was perfected in the Chenghua reign. A stem cup of this type was excavated from the late Chenghua strata at Jingdezhen.
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