Period:Yuan dynasty Production date:1280-1368 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, moulded,
Subjects:lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 13.30 centimetres Height: 4 centimetres
Description:
Dish with moulded design, shufu characters and luanbai glaze. This shallow dish has rounded sides and stands on a small, neatly cut, round foot ring. Inside it has a press-moulded design of a stylized lotus scroll with four blooms in the centre and with a denser stylised lotus scroll with five flowers in the cavetto. Two characters are moulded into the cavetto on opposite sides, ‘shu’ and 府 fu. Inside and out the dish is covered with a luanbai opaque blue-white glaze which is much worn inside. The base is unglazed and is turned to a central nipple.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Similar dishes were excavated from among the 109 items of luanbai and blue-and-white porcelain recovered in 1984 from the Yuan hoard in Shexian in southern Anhui. Such dishes were made in a variety of sizes and the positioning of the characters within the moulded designs varies too. A similar but slightly larger dish is in the Guangdong Museum collections. From extant fourteenth-century texts we know that such wares were highly regarded. For example, Cao Zhao in his Geguyao lun of 1378, written ten years after the fall of the Yuan, recorded that ‘small footed bowls with moulded decoration which has the inscription shufu written inside are the best’. The shufu mark is believed to stand for the Shumi Yuan, Privy Council of the Yuan government in charge of military affairs.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, moulded,
Subjects:lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 13.30 centimetres Height: 4 centimetres
Description:
Dish with moulded design, shufu characters and luanbai glaze. This shallow dish has rounded sides and stands on a small, neatly cut, round foot ring. Inside it has a press-moulded design of a stylized lotus scroll with four blooms in the centre and with a denser stylised lotus scroll with five flowers in the cavetto. Two characters are moulded into the cavetto on opposite sides, ‘shu’ and 府 fu. Inside and out the dish is covered with a luanbai opaque blue-white glaze which is much worn inside. The base is unglazed and is turned to a central nipple.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Similar dishes were excavated from among the 109 items of luanbai and blue-and-white porcelain recovered in 1984 from the Yuan hoard in Shexian in southern Anhui. Such dishes were made in a variety of sizes and the positioning of the characters within the moulded designs varies too. A similar but slightly larger dish is in the Guangdong Museum collections. From extant fourteenth-century texts we know that such wares were highly regarded. For example, Cao Zhao in his Geguyao lun of 1378, written ten years after the fall of the Yuan, recorded that ‘small footed bowls with moulded decoration which has the inscription shufu written inside are the best’. The shufu mark is believed to stand for the Shumi Yuan, Privy Council of the Yuan government in charge of military affairs.
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