Period:Yuan dynasty Production date:1320-1350 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:moulded, glazed,
Subjects:plum blossom/tree flaming jewel dragon
Dimensions:Diameter: 11.80 centimetres Height: 11.60 centimetres
Description:
Stem cup with moulded decoration and ‘luanbai’ glaze. This ‘gaozu bei’ (high stem cup) has a bowl with rounded sides, an everted lip and a spreading stem. Inside the cup is moulded with a central five-petalled plum blossom and with two scaly dragons chasing their own flaming pearls in the cavetto. It is covered inside and out with an opaque blue-white ‘luanbai’ glaze through which tiny iron-brown impurities can be seen.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:An identical stem cup was excavated in 1952 from the Yuan dynasty Ren family tombs in Qingpu county, Shanghai municipality, and is now in the Shanghai Museum. Stem cups of this type have also been unearthed in Yuan contexts at Hutian, Jingdezhen, where they were made.The form of the high stem cup developed first from imported metal work in the Tang dynasty but was soon afterwards copied in ceramic. The form developed a larger bowl and a longer stem in the Song era and continued into the Yuan. A gilt-bronze Yuan example with incised classic scroll decoration around the rim, a ridge one third of the way down the spreading stem and with openwork decoration of dragons around the bottom of the stem was sold at Bluetts in London in 1990.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:moulded, glazed,
Subjects:plum blossom/tree flaming jewel dragon
Dimensions:Diameter: 11.80 centimetres Height: 11.60 centimetres
Description:
Stem cup with moulded decoration and ‘luanbai’ glaze. This ‘gaozu bei’ (high stem cup) has a bowl with rounded sides, an everted lip and a spreading stem. Inside the cup is moulded with a central five-petalled plum blossom and with two scaly dragons chasing their own flaming pearls in the cavetto. It is covered inside and out with an opaque blue-white ‘luanbai’ glaze through which tiny iron-brown impurities can be seen.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:An identical stem cup was excavated in 1952 from the Yuan dynasty Ren family tombs in Qingpu county, Shanghai municipality, and is now in the Shanghai Museum. Stem cups of this type have also been unearthed in Yuan contexts at Hutian, Jingdezhen, where they were made.The form of the high stem cup developed first from imported metal work in the Tang dynasty but was soon afterwards copied in ceramic. The form developed a larger bowl and a longer stem in the Song era and continued into the Yuan. A gilt-bronze Yuan example with incised classic scroll decoration around the rim, a ridge one third of the way down the spreading stem and with openwork decoration of dragons around the bottom of the stem was sold at Bluetts in London in 1990.
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