Cup, D23.195 | Tūhura Otago Museum

Physical Description

Fengcai (Familli Rose) Bird food cup with landscaping design. Miniature white porcelain pot, no lid, with two small attachments on one side for a handle, decorated with a painted landscape in black, green, brown over-enamel. Decoration depicts farmland and wilderness, rocks in foreground, village in middle ground, mountains in distance. There is a small bridge in the centre with a tiny human figure on it.

Research Notes

Chinese traditional Landscape (water & Mountain) —Professor Kelun Chen

Miniature white porcelain pot, no lid, with two small attachments on one side for a handle, decorated with a painted landscape in black, green, brown over-enamel. Decoration depicts farmland and wilderness, rocks in foreground, village in middle ground, mountains in distance. There is a small bridge in the centre with a tiny human figure on it. —Jonathan Wicken

Cup, Fengcai (Familli Rose) Bird food cup with landscaping design —Professor Kelun Chen

porcelain

overglaze

Chinese traditional Landscape (water & Mountain)

19th Cent (60's)

Tongzi year of Qing Dynasty

Tongzi year made

Jingdezhen in Jiangxi