dish BM-PDF.716

Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1522-1566
Materials:porcelain
Technique:underglazed, painted,
Subjects:the three friends of winter
Dimensions:Height: 49 millimetres Width: 229 millimetres

Description:
Porcelain square dish with flaring sides and slightly everted rim. There are is a pine tree, prunus, bamboo and lingzhi fungus in underglaze blue against a yellow overglaze enamel ground within a square panel in the centre. There is a mark in underglaze blue on the base.
IMG


Comments:Published PDF date : Ming Jiajing 1522-1566 Room 95 label text:PDF 716Square dishChinese 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. There is a Jiajing reign mark in underglaze blue on the base. The iron-pigmented yellow colour has been added in a second lower-temperature firing surrounding the underglaze blue.Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue decoration and yellow glazeJingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮Ming dynasty, Jiajing mark and period, AD 1522–1566 PDF 716方盤中國人將松、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。器底署青花嘉靖年款。環繞青花的鐵黃釉為二次低溫燒成。瓷器，青花，黃釉江西省景德鎮明代，嘉靖，嘉靖款，1522-1566年