Cup with stand; a) cup: porcelain enameled 3-color ware with basal design of two dragons, one with sacred pearl in claw; manganese purple/green/black on yellow ground; double peach and flower on rim; 6 characters on underside translate: "Wan-Li Great Ming Dynasty"; wide, shallow; depth: 9.4 cm; b) delicately carved stand with chartreuse painted designs; depth 5.8 cm.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
China
Verbatim coll. place:
China
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Porcelain (material) and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cups (drinking vessels), Dragons, and Porcelain (visual works)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
1909
Context of use:
wine cup? catalogued as "ceremonial cup". old label says "Old Chinese Taimeen" (possibly means Ming Dynasty). reign of Wan-Li 1573 - 1620 A.D.
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
b— diameter 5.8 centimeters and a— diameter 9.4 centimeters