Blue-and-white stem bowl with lotus flowers and mandarin ducks
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Details
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Title
Blue-and-white stem bowl with lotus flowers and mandarin ducks
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Associated place
Jingdezhen kilns (place of creation) -
Date
mid-14th century -
Material and technique
porcelain, with underglaze painting in cobalt-blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
17.8 cm (height)
18 cm (diameter)
at foot 11.5 cm (diameter)
6.8 cm min. (diameter) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Bequeathed by Professor A. H. Sayce, 1933.
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Museum location
Second floor | Gallery 38 | China from AD 800 -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EAX.1386
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Glossary of terms
porcelain
underglaze painting
Further reading
Piper, David, and Christopher White, Treasures of the Ashmolean Museum: An Illustrated Souvenir of the Collections, revised edn (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1995), no. 34 on p. 38, illus. p. 38 fig. 34
Chen Xiejun, Chen Kelun, and Lu Minghua, Splendours in Smalt: Art of Yuan Blue-and-white Porcelain, trans. Chen Jie and others (Shanghai: Shanghai Museum, 2012), no. 20 on p.100, illus. pp. 100-101
