Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1573-1620
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:fish
Dimensions:Diameter: 10.50 centimetres Height: 2 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with underglaze blue decoration. This smaller saucer-shaped dish has rounded sides, a flared rim and a tapering foot. It is made of high-quality porcelain with bright blue underglaze cobalt decoration. Inside in a roundel two fish swim among aquatic plants in opposite directions, bordered with white-crested blue waves and with a double ring rim border. Outside four fish, three of them in the same attitude, are similarly depicted. The base carries a four-character archaic mark in a square, surrounded by four further characters in a ring, imitating the form of a Chinese coin. The mark in the square reads ‘De hua chang chun’ [Virtue, culture and enduring spring] and round the outside ‘Wanli nian zao’ [Made in the Wanli reign period].
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Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:fish
Dimensions:Diameter: 10.50 centimetres Height: 2 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with underglaze blue decoration. This smaller saucer-shaped dish has rounded sides, a flared rim and a tapering foot. It is made of high-quality porcelain with bright blue underglaze cobalt decoration. Inside in a roundel two fish swim among aquatic plants in opposite directions, bordered with white-crested blue waves and with a double ring rim border. Outside four fish, three of them in the same attitude, are similarly depicted. The base carries a four-character archaic mark in a square, surrounded by four further characters in a ring, imitating the form of a Chinese coin. The mark in the square reads ‘De hua chang chun’ [Virtue, culture and enduring spring] and round the outside ‘Wanli nian zao’ [Made in the Wanli reign period].
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