Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1426-1435 (The enamel was added later.)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, painted, underglazed,
Subjects:lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 14.30 centimetres Height: 3 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with underglaze blue decoration and overglaze yellow enamel. This shallow dish has rounded sides, an everted rim and a low tapering foot. It is decorated in shades of underglaze blue outside and in the cavetto with lotus scrolls and in the centre with a single lotus in a double ring with underglaze blue lines edging the inner and outer rim, join of body to foot and foot. Later yellow enamel has been added to cover the white body. The base carries a six-character Xuande reign mark in a double ring.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:A blue-and-white dish of this type without the yellow was excavated in the Xuande strata at Zhushan, Jingdezhen, in 1993. Another is in the National Palace Museum, Taipei. The underglaze blue and porcelain are Xuande but the yellow enamel is different in colour from that yellow used on porcelain of the Xuande era. Xuande yellow is generally paler and less even than the pigment used here. It is possible that the yellow enamel was added in the Qing era to increase the rarity of the dish. It was added before 1947, when the dish was bequeathed to the Museum.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, painted, underglazed,
Subjects:lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 14.30 centimetres Height: 3 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with underglaze blue decoration and overglaze yellow enamel. This shallow dish has rounded sides, an everted rim and a low tapering foot. It is decorated in shades of underglaze blue outside and in the cavetto with lotus scrolls and in the centre with a single lotus in a double ring with underglaze blue lines edging the inner and outer rim, join of body to foot and foot. Later yellow enamel has been added to cover the white body. The base carries a six-character Xuande reign mark in a double ring.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:A blue-and-white dish of this type without the yellow was excavated in the Xuande strata at Zhushan, Jingdezhen, in 1993. Another is in the National Palace Museum, Taipei. The underglaze blue and porcelain are Xuande but the yellow enamel is different in colour from that yellow used on porcelain of the Xuande era. Xuande yellow is generally paler and less even than the pigment used here. It is possible that the yellow enamel was added in the Qing era to increase the rarity of the dish. It was added before 1947, when the dish was bequeathed to the Museum.
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