14 juillet 2012

Large serving dish with composite flower scroll. Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue decoration. Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮. Ming dynasty, Yongle reign, AD1403–1424. On loan from Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art. PDF  A610 © Trustees of the British Museum Height: 62 mm. Diameter: 343 mm. Large porcelain dish. Underglaze blue with scrolling flower heads inside and outside. Unglazed base. Potters working at Jingdezhen used a blue-generating cobalt pigment... [Lire la suite]

Diadème à la Fleur de Lys. Offert par le roi Alphonse XIII d'Espagne à son épouse, la reine Victoria Eugenia.

Meiping with fruiting branches. Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue decoration. Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮. Ming dynasty, Yongle period, AD 1403–24. On loan from Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art. PDF  A610 © Trustees of the British Museum Height: 285 mm. Diameter: 177 mm. Underglaze blue with wide band of fruiting branches including peaches, cherries and pomegranate between bands of lappets and plantain leaves. All decorative bands separated by parallel blue... [Lire la suite]

The Dresden Green Diamond. 41 carats (8.2 g) natural green diamond, which probably originated in the Kollur mine in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. In 1768, the diamond was incorporated into an extremely valuable hat ornament, surrounded by two large and 411 medium-sized and small diamonds. This is the setting that the Dresden Green still appears in today. Today, the diamond is shown in the "New Green Vault" at Dresden Castle.

‘Moon’ flask with birds and flowering branches. Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue decoration; Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮. Ming dynasty, Yongle period, AD 1403–24. On loan from Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art. PDF  A612 © Trustees of the British Museum Height: 308 mm. Width: 254 mm. Depth: 150 mm. Porcelain flask of baoyueping form with two cloud-shaped handles attached at the sides of the neck. Underglaze blue scene of a song bird on a flowering prunus... [Lire la suite]

Mellerio Floral tiara of the Leuchtenberg family, descendants of Eugéne de Beauharnais, son of the Empress Joséphine

Blue-and-white bottle with a pair of birds. Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue decoration. Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province江西省, 景德鎮. Ming dynasty, Yongle period, AD 1403–24. On loan from Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art. PDF  C503 © Trustees of the British Museum Height: 335 mm. Diameter: 186 mm. Porcelain bottle of yuhuchun ping form with flaring mouth rim. Underglaze blue with two song birds on a flowering prunus branch. Bands of scrolling flowers and scrolls on... [Lire la suite]

Diadème d"émeraudes et diamants de la Reine Margrethe II de Danemark.

  Blue-and-white flask with dragons. Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue decoration. Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮. Ming dynasty, Yongle period, AD 1403–24. On loan from Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art. PDF  C503 © Trustees of the British Museum Height: 478 mm. Width: 350 mm. Depth: 225 mm. Weight: 7.2 kb. Large porcelain flask of bian hu form. Underglaze blue with large three-clawed dragon among scrolling lotus. Similar scrolling lotus on... [Lire la suite]

Diadème aux feuilles et boules de gui de la Reine Margrethe II de Danemark