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Details
- Other Title
- Stemcup with ribbed stem
- Place where the work was made
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Zhejiang Province
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China
- Period
- Ming dynasty 1368 - 1644 → China
- Date
- 14th century
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- celadon
- Dimensions
- 12.4 x 12.7 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Bequest of Laurence G. Harrison 1997
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 379.1997
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Longquan ware
Works in the collection
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About
A variety of decorative devices were employed on Longquan ceramics yet they were admired ultimately for their colour, which ranged from a pale blue-green to grey-green to olive. Song Longquan is the most esteemed as it attained an excellence of glaze and style which has never been surpassed. The subtle colours and elusive beauty of celadon have been compared by poets to jade, which from deep antiquity was considered the most precious of stones and symbolised the moral virtues of the Confucian scholar.
The Asian Collections, AGNSW, 2003, pg.108.
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Places
Where the work was made
Zhejiang Province
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Chinese Ceramics, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 11 Aug 1965–12 Sep 1965
Chinese porcelain of the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 Feb 1977–26 Jun 1977
Conversations through the Asian collections, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 Oct 2014–13 Mar 2016
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Mr V V W Fretwell, Mr L G Harrison, Ivan McMeekin and J. Hepburn Myrtle (Compilators), Chinese ceramics, Sydney, 1965, 22, 41 (illus.). cat.no. 59
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J. Hepburn Myrtle, Chinese porcelain of the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties, Sydney, 1977, 15. cat.no. 2
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Jackie Menzies (Editor), The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Early Ceramics', Sydney, 2003, 108 (colour illus.).
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