dish BM-1937-0716.96

Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1628-1644 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, painted, underglazed,
Subjects:bird insect bamboo,flower
Dimensions:Diameter: 21 centimetres Height: 3.50 centimetres

Description:
Porcelain dish painted in overglaze enamels. This warped dish has flared sides and an everted rim with a tapering gritty foot. Painted in a typical late Ming palette of red, green, yellow, aubergine and black enamels, the design covers the whole of the dish and the rim is edged in brown enamel. A hen is shown surrounded by six chicks. One perches on her back and flaps its wings, two more wrestle with a worm in front of her and three others look on. Above, a bug and a butterfly are flying towards a large tree peony and bamboo plant. On the base is an illegible seal mark within a double square in dark underglaze blue.
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图片[1]-dish BM-1937-0716.96-China Archive

Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:An illustration with the same design was included in a woodblock-illustrated manual, the “Cao Bai Hua Shu Pu” [Grass Poetry Manual], one of the eight volumes of the “Ba Zhong Hua Pu” [Manual of Eight Types of Painting], printed in Huizhou, Anhui province, in 1621 by Huang Fengchi. A Japanese facsimile copy of this book is in the British Museum. Interestingly Jenyns reminds us of the close proximity of Huizhou to Qimen, where clay was mined for potting. Japanese collectors much appreciated this type of dish for its spontaneity as well as its flaws from the seventeenth century onwards. In Japan this quality of ceramic has traditionally been known as ‘ranzohen’ [things made in a haphazard fashion]. Imitations of this exact design were made in Japan in the early seventeenth century. Other Chinese dishes of this type are quite common: examples are in the Butler Collection, the Kyoto National Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Weishaupt Collection.
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