Period:Yuan dynasty Production date:1280-1368 (circa)
Materials:porcelain, bronze,
Technique:moulded, glazed,
Subjects:flaming jewel dragon
Dimensions:Diameter: 17.50 centimetres Height: 3.50 centimetres
Description:
Dish with moulded design and luanbai glaze, rim bound with metal. This dish has rounded sides which curve sharply upwards at the rim. It stands on a low foot and has an unglazed base. The rim is bound with a bronze mount. It is decorated with a relief-moulded design of a viśvavajra in the centre and with two five-clawed dragons chasing their own flaming pearls in the cavetto. Inside and out it is covered with a luanbai opaque white glaze with a blue tinge. The base is unglazed.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Viśvavajra (double Buddhist thunderbolt sceptre) motifs inside this dish suggest that it may have been used in a Buddhist context, possibly as an offering dish. The five-clawed dragons indicate that it was made for the Mongol court. Professor Liu Xinyuan has suggested that items decorated with five-clawed dragons were indeed made for the court in the Yuan period. Traditionally metal mounts were added to ceramics both to hide a flawed rim and to enhance the status of the object. Several qingbai porcelains mounted with metal rims were recovered from the Sinan shipwreck, datable to 1323. Viśvavajra designs also occur inside celadon dishes in the Yuan period (see BM 1973.0726.315). Additionally the motif may be found in underglaze blue, adorning the interior of Yuan dishes, evidenced by a shard excavated by Sven Hedin in 1934 from Kharakhoto in the middle of the Gobi desert in Mongolia. The motif became popular again in the fifteenth century.
Materials:porcelain, bronze,
Technique:moulded, glazed,
Subjects:flaming jewel dragon
Dimensions:Diameter: 17.50 centimetres Height: 3.50 centimetres
Description:
Dish with moulded design and luanbai glaze, rim bound with metal. This dish has rounded sides which curve sharply upwards at the rim. It stands on a low foot and has an unglazed base. The rim is bound with a bronze mount. It is decorated with a relief-moulded design of a viśvavajra in the centre and with two five-clawed dragons chasing their own flaming pearls in the cavetto. Inside and out it is covered with a luanbai opaque white glaze with a blue tinge. The base is unglazed.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Viśvavajra (double Buddhist thunderbolt sceptre) motifs inside this dish suggest that it may have been used in a Buddhist context, possibly as an offering dish. The five-clawed dragons indicate that it was made for the Mongol court. Professor Liu Xinyuan has suggested that items decorated with five-clawed dragons were indeed made for the court in the Yuan period. Traditionally metal mounts were added to ceramics both to hide a flawed rim and to enhance the status of the object. Several qingbai porcelains mounted with metal rims were recovered from the Sinan shipwreck, datable to 1323. Viśvavajra designs also occur inside celadon dishes in the Yuan period (see BM 1973.0726.315). Additionally the motif may be found in underglaze blue, adorning the interior of Yuan dishes, evidenced by a shard excavated by Sven Hedin in 1934 from Kharakhoto in the middle of the Gobi desert in Mongolia. The motif became popular again in the fifteenth century.
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