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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Saucer

1989 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Saucer, part of a tea set, made of fine, white translucent porcelain, decorated with an underglaze pattern of a branch of fruit and leaves in black, grey, brown, pink, green and yellow.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Porcelain with underglaze polychrome decoration
Brief description
Saucer, part of a tea set, porcelain with underglaze polychrome decoration; manufactured by Hunan Ceramics Research Institute, China (Hunan province), 1989
Physical description
Saucer, part of a tea set, made of fine, white translucent porcelain, decorated with an underglaze pattern of a branch of fruit and leaves in black, grey, brown, pink, green and yellow.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 14cm
Style
Marks and inscriptions
'Hunan tao ci yan jiu suo jing zhi' stamped blue sealmark on base
Translation
Specially made by the Hunan Ceramics Research Institute
Credit line
Given by Mr Simon Kwan
Object history
The tea set [FE.63 to 71-1990] was first produced and hand-decorated by the Liling factory in the 1960s. In order to demonstrate that such high-quality domestic product could still be made, the Hong Kong Museum of Art commissioned the Hunan Ceramics Research Institute to produce 100 sets, and then sold them by mail-order at a cost of HK$ 980. It is reported that the order from Hunan took some years to arrive.
Production
Register
Bibliographic references
  • Guan, Shanming. Modern Chinese Ceramics from the Simon Kwan Collection 1990, P. 43
  • Chugoku Toji Zenshu, Vol. 30, Liling Ware, Kyoto, 1981, pl. 50.
Collection
Accession number
FE.71:2-1990

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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