vase BM-PDF-C.644

Period:Qing dynasty Production date:1681-1688 (about)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:underglazed

Dimensions:Diameter: 170 millimetres Height: 421 millimetres

Description:
Large porcelain vase of baluster form, with painted areas all carved in low relief. There are two large four-clawed red dragons rising from blue waves chasing a flaming pearl in underglaze blue, red and celadon glaze. There is an inscription on the base.
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Comments:Published PDF date : Qing Kangxi 1662-1722 Room 95 label text:PDF C644Vase showing dragons among wavesPorcelain painters demonstrated their virtuosity by combining three high-fired colours that were difficult to control, in order to decorate this vase, a level of technical achievement that reflects close court patronage and supervision. The design was carved into the body in shallow relief and then copper-red added to the two dragons, underglaze cobalt-blue for the crashing waves, dragons’ manes and spines and iron-pigmented celadon for the rocks’ outer edges. Although the technique of combining underglaze red and blue was first used more than three hundred years earlier by Yuan dynasty potters at the same kiln site, Jingdezhen, the addition of celadon glaze to these items was an innovation of the late seventeenth century. The design was based on a painting by Liu yuan of 1681–1688Porcelain with underglaze copper-red, underglaze cobalt-blue, transparent and celadon glazesJingdezhen, Jiangxi province江西省, 景德鎮Qing dynasty, Kangxi mark and period, about AD1681–1688 PDF C644波濤龍紋瓶結合三種高溫釉彩裝飾此瓶，陶瓷匠師們展現了他們的精湛技藝。控製這些釉彩十分困難，這一技術成就反映了宮廷的大力扶持及密切監管。陶工先在瓷胎上剔刻出淺浮雕紋飾，而後在兩條龍紋上加繪銅紅，以鈷藍繪洶湧的波濤、龍脊和鬃毛，以鐵為呈色元素的青釉繪海礁石的外緣。儘管青花與釉裏紅的結合使用，在此前三百年的元代景德鎮就已出現，在這類器物上加以青釉，卻是十七世紀晚期的創新。此圖案以畫家劉源在1681-1688年的畫作為粉本。瓷器，釉裏紅，青花，透明釉，青釉江西省景德鎮清代，康熙，康熙款，約1681-1688年