Jingdezhen ware
(China)
- Title
- Vase
- Place of origin
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Jingdezhen →
Jiangxi Province →
China
- Period
- Republic 1912 - 1949 → China
- Year
- 1920s-1930s
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- egg shell porcelain with enamel decoration
- Dimensions
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25.4 x 15.7cm; 8.4cm diameter of rim.
- Credit
- Bequest of Alan Renshaw 1975
- Accession number
- 290.1975
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
The medium description of this vase is egg shell porcelain with enamel decoration. The potting is extremely thin, probably less than 1 mm. This type of fragile glassy porcelain was the result of technical innovations introduced at Jingdezhen early this century.
Hepburn Myrtle, 'Late Chinese Imperial Porcelain', AGNSW, 1980.
- Bibliography (2)
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J. Hepburn Myrtle (Australia, b.1911, d.1998) (Author), Late Chinese Imperial Porcelain, Sydney, 1980, 8, 49 (illus.). cat.no. 80
J. Hepburn Myrtle (Australia, b.1911, d.1998) (Author), Chinese porcelain of the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties, Sydney, 1977, 37. cat.no 79
- Exhibition history (2)
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Chinese porcelain of the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 18 Feb 1977–26 Jun 1977.
Late Chinese Imperial Porcelain, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 02 Aug 1980–21 Sep 1980.
