Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1621-1627
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, painted, underglazed,
Subjects:the three friends of winter
Dimensions:Diameter: 144 millimetres Height: 33 millimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with rounded sides, straight rim, and tapering flared foot. There are two cranes on either side of a pine tree, with prunus blossoms and bamboo in red, turquoise, ochre, green, aubergine and black overglaze enamel on the interior, and two fruiting peach branches on the exterior. There is a mark in underglaze blue on the base.
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Comments:Published PDF date : Ming early-mid 17th century Room 95 label text:PDF 799Dish with a pair of cranesChinese people read this design of pine, bamboo and prunus as the 歲寒三友 (suihan sanyou ‘The Three Friends of Winter’). Pine trees are evergreen and grow for a long time, representing stability and longevity; bamboo, another evergreen, symbolises the educated Confucian, an ideal gentleman-scholar who should be like a bamboo stem, bending not breaking in adverse conditions; and the plum stands for purity as well as leadership, as it is the first flower to bloom in China in the New Year. The cranes are an emblem of long life. There is a four-character apocryphal Xuande reign mark in underglaze blue mark on the base.Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue mark and overglaze enamelsJingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮Ming dynasty, about AD 1621–1627 PDF 799雙鶴紋盤中國人將松、竹、梅組成的紋飾圖案稱為“歲寒三友”（意為冬天的三位朋友）。松樹，長青且存活時間長，代表穩定與長壽；竹子，另一種長青植物，象徵有教養的儒家，即紳士學者應該像竹節一樣，直面逆境寧折不彎；梅花代表純潔，亦象徵領導，因其為中國新年開放的第一種花卉。仙鶴是長壽的象徵。器底署青花四字宣德偽託年款。瓷器，青花款，釉上彩江西省景德鎮明代，約1621-1627年
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, painted, underglazed,
Subjects:the three friends of winter
Dimensions:Diameter: 144 millimetres Height: 33 millimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with rounded sides, straight rim, and tapering flared foot. There are two cranes on either side of a pine tree, with prunus blossoms and bamboo in red, turquoise, ochre, green, aubergine and black overglaze enamel on the interior, and two fruiting peach branches on the exterior. There is a mark in underglaze blue on the base.
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Comments:Published PDF date : Ming early-mid 17th century Room 95 label text:PDF 799Dish with a pair of cranesChinese people read this design of pine, bamboo and prunus as the 歲寒三友 (suihan sanyou ‘The Three Friends of Winter’). Pine trees are evergreen and grow for a long time, representing stability and longevity; bamboo, another evergreen, symbolises the educated Confucian, an ideal gentleman-scholar who should be like a bamboo stem, bending not breaking in adverse conditions; and the plum stands for purity as well as leadership, as it is the first flower to bloom in China in the New Year. The cranes are an emblem of long life. There is a four-character apocryphal Xuande reign mark in underglaze blue mark on the base.Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue mark and overglaze enamelsJingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮Ming dynasty, about AD 1621–1627 PDF 799雙鶴紋盤中國人將松、竹、梅組成的紋飾圖案稱為“歲寒三友”（意為冬天的三位朋友）。松樹，長青且存活時間長，代表穩定與長壽；竹子，另一種長青植物，象徵有教養的儒家，即紳士學者應該像竹節一樣，直面逆境寧折不彎；梅花代表純潔，亦象徵領導，因其為中國新年開放的第一種花卉。仙鶴是長壽的象徵。器底署青花四字宣德偽託年款。瓷器，青花款，釉上彩江西省景德鎮明代，約1621-1627年
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