wine-cup BM-PDF-A.745

Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1465-1487
Materials:porcelain
Technique:doucai, underglazed,

Dimensions:Diameter: 75 millimetres Height: 50 millimetres

Description:
Porcelain wine-cup. Decorated in doucai style with underglaze blue outlines and washes and overglaze yellow, red and green enamels. On outside walls, four ‘kui’ dragons with lotus sprigs in their mouths, within medallions. Segments of flower sprays in between. There is a mark on the base.
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Comments:Published PDF date : Ming Chenghua 1465-1487 Room 95 label text:PDF A745 Doucai wine cup with mythical beastsThis beautiful doucai porcelain wine cup is decorated with four 夔龍(kuilong ‘kui dragons’) in roundels arranged in confronting pairs. These dragons have a snout like an elephant’s trunk, lotus in their mouths, wings and scrolling tails. The colours are cleverly alternated and changed in each roundel and half flower. Scholars have proposed a connection between these doucai wares and the Chenghua emperor’s favourite mistress, Concubine Wan 萬貴妃 (AD 1430–1487). She entered the palace at the age of four to serve at the Xuande emperor’s court. Concubine Wan was seventeen years senior to the Chenghua emperor. She gradually manipulated him, promoting the advancement of herself and her family. Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue and overglaze enamel decorationJingdezhen, Jiangxi province江西省, 景德鎮Ming dynasty, Chenghua mark and period, AD1465–87 PDF A745 神獸夔龍紋鬥彩酒杯這件精美的鬥彩酒杯裝飾以四個團花夔龍紋，按相向成對方式布局。這些龍鼻部似象鼻，口銜蓮花，雙翼卷尾。每個團花和半朵花所用的色彩都巧妙交替有變化。學者們認為這些鬥彩器物和成化皇帝的寵妃萬貴妃有關聯。萬貴妃四歲時進入宣德皇帝的宮廷作宮女，比成化皇帝大十七歲，逐漸開始操縱成化帝，以求她自己和家族的進用和利益。瓷器，青花，釉上彩江西省景德鎮明代，成化， 成化款，1465-1487年