Title
Medallion bowl
1821-1850
Artists
Unknown Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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China
- Period
- Daoguang 1821 - 1850 → Qing dynasty 1644 - 1911 → China
- Date
- 1821-1850
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- porcelain with blue enamel ground
- Dimensions
- 6.4 x 14.7 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Mr J.H. Myrtle 1983
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 215.1983
- Copyright
- Share
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About
Decorated on the exterior with four roundels illustrating the story of the cowherd and the spinning maiden in opaque enamels, reserved on a blue enamel 'graviata' ground; on the interior in underglaze blue illustrating the meeting of the lovers in the Milky Way.
These are generally known as ‘medallion bowls’ and were popular in the Jiajing and particularly the Daoguang periods.
Excerpt from Hepburn Myrtle, 'Late Imperial Chinese Porcelain', AGNSW, 1980, pg. 17.
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Places
Where the work was made
China
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Late Chinese Imperial Porcelain, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 02 Aug 1980–21 Sep 1980
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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J. Hepburn Myrtle, Late Chinese Imperial Porcelain, Sydney, 1980, 6, 17 (illus.). cat. no.15
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