wine-cup BM-PDF-A.748

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

Dimensions:Diameter: 83 millimetres Height: 38 millimetres

Description:
Porcelain ‘chicken cup’ wine-cup. Decorated in doucai style with underglaze blue washes and outlines and overglaze green, red, yellow, and brown enamels. Design on the exterior of rooster, hen and chicks with lilies and peony shrubs behind rocks. There is a mark on the base.
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Comments:Published PDF date : Ming Chenghua 1465-1487 Room 95 label text:PDF A748Doucai ‘Chicken cup‘ Artists depicted the theme of a hen pecking for food with her chicks first in paintings and these probably inspired the porcelain versions. Decorators used layers of coloured enamels to suggest different textures, for example the cockerels’ feathers are indicated with tiny red strokes and the hen’s wing is outlined in red against her yellow feathers. This is several hundred years before the development of a palette of opaque enamels which would allow shading. 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 A748鬥彩雞缸杯母雞帶著小雞們啄食的藝術主題，首先見于繪畫，這或許啓發了瓷器上的紋樣設計。畫瓷藝人用不同層次的顏色釉彩來體現不同的質感：如小公雞的羽毛用細小的紅彩筆觸，母雞的翅膀以紅彩勾勒再用黃彩敷染羽毛。而在幾百年之後，才發展出現了以不透明的釉彩進行多層渲染的技法。瓷器，青花，釉上彩江西省景德鎮明代，成化， 成化款，1465-1487年