Jingdezhen kilns
Wine Cup
c. 1700
Physical Qualities
Porcelain with transparent glaze, 3 x 2 15/16 in. (7.6 x 7.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Dr. W. Lehman Guyton, Cockeysville, Maryland
Object Number
2010.73
Two basic ingredients of Chinese porcelain were white-firing porcelain clays
(kaolin) and a less-weathered porcelain stone derived from secondary quartz.
High-firing transparent glaze was produced with a mixture of silica and
alumina (aluminum oxide), with chalk (calcium oxide) added to lower the
melting temperature.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2010; Dr. W. Lehman Guyton, Cockeysville, Maryland
Frances Klapthor, "BMA Past/Future: Guyton/Chiu; Two Collections of Chinese Art," BMA, August 18, 2010-
