Title

Beaker with underglaze blue birds, grasses and flowers, 1660-1677. Artist: Unknown.

Caption

A beaker of trumpet shape form with grasses and magpie on branches extending down from the rim and two in flight in underglaze blue. The piece is extensively clobbered with polychrome enamels of yellow, green, aubergine and rouge de fer. The interior side of the rim has formal decoration of squiggles in underglaze blue. The base has a Chenghua mark in kaishu script within a single lined circle in underglaze blue.
Bath (England), The Museum of East Asian Art

Date

1660

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B82_360

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

57,2Mb (1,1Mb) / 18,3in x 12,2in / 5476 x 3651 (300dpi)

Keywords

blue country white China Chinese color colour ceramic location century image beaker porcelain floral studio shot dynasty edge qing dynasty flowered 17th century rim white background enamel seventeenth century Museum of East Asian Art Chenghua Kangxi period underglaze blue object white colour Unknown ceramic Sydney Alfred Clark Smith Sydney Smith enamelled Quing Dynasty bassetaille Alfred Clark Mr and Mrs Alfred Clark Sydney Smith Alfred Clark ceramic object