Ming Yongle blue and white hand-pressing cup from the Palace Museum, Ming Yongle blue and white hand-pressing cup

Name Ming Yongle blue and white pressed hand cup (lion ball heart)

Category Porcelain, blue and white porcelain, Ming Yongle blue and white porcelain

Era Ming Yongle years

Cultural relics originally belonged to the Ming dynasty palace imperial porcelain

Cultural relics status Now in the Palace Museum in Beijing

Introduction

Height 5.2cm, caliber 9.3cm, foot diameter 3.9cm.

The cup has a flared mouth, a rich bottom and a rounded foot. Decorated with blue and white flowers inside and outside. The center of the cup is decorated in a single circle with two lions playing with a ball, and the ball is signed in seal script Yongle nian zhi (Yongle yearly production). The outer wall is painted with a pattern of prunus under the mouth, the abdomen with a pattern of entwined lotus, and the outer footrim with a pattern of scrolling grasses, with nine lines of blue and white strings at intervals.

This cup is fine, simple and thick. Decorative arrangement of the main and secondary clear, simple layout of the decoration inside the cup, the outer wall decoration with soft lines to form a two-way continuous twining flower pattern. The color of the blue and green is deep and emerald. The work has high artistic value and research value, and is considered to be a unique and valuable artifact of the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty.

The mark of the Yongle pressed hand cup, in small fly-head characters, is clearly legible. The arrangement on the screen is very clever, the inscription and the pattern are integrated together, not just for the sake of writing the inscription, but combined with the porcelain decoration, which not only informs the age of the ware, but also pleases the eye. Lion rolling embroidered ball is a folk dance of good luck, as the theme of painting in the cup of the heart, will be "Yongle year system" written in the ball, this clever arrangement fully reflects the Jingdezhen ceramic craftsmen's elegant artistic cultivation.

Name Ming Yongle blue and white hand pressure cup (flower heart)

Category Porcelain, blue and white porcelain, Ming Yongle blue and white porcelain

Era Ming Yongle years

Cultural relics originally belonged to the Ming dynasty court imperial porcelain

Cultural relics status Now in the Palace Museum in Beijing

Introduction

Height 4.9cm, caliber 9.2cm, foot diameter 3.9cm.

The cup is like a small bowl, with a slightly flared mouth, a folded waist, a plump bottom and a rounded foot. Both inside and outside are decorated with blue and white flowers. In the center of the cup is a sunflower, signed in seal script Yongle nian zhi ('Made during the Yongle period'). The outer wall is painted with prunus blossoms below the mouth rim, and the abdomen is painted with a design of entwined lotus flowers.

Pressing the hand cup is a new type of porcelain cup created by the Jingdezhen imperial kiln factory during the Yongle period of the Ming dynasty. This cup is fine, simple and thick form, blue and green color tone deep green.