Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1426-1435
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, incised, anhua (‘hidden’ design), underglazed,
Subjects:dragon
Dimensions:Diameter: 20.30 centimetres Height: 4.30 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with underglaze blue decoration. This shallow dish, which has rounded sides and an everted rim and stands on a tapering foot ring, is of remarkable quality. It is slightly sunken in the centre and consequently has a concave base. Beneath a blue-green-tinged glaze it is beautifully painted in dark uneven cobalt blue with a fierce sinewy dragon with five flexed claws on each paw, open jaws and a powerful curled body. The dragon ls set against a contrasting pale ground of delicately outlined waves, with white crests transformed into sea monsters by the addition of eyes. Surrounding this in the cavetto are undulating anhua dragons. Outside two pairs of dragons, alternately facing forwards and backwards, confront each other on a ground of waves punctuated with stylized rocks. In the middle of the six-character Xuande reign mark in a double ring on the base is a single drill mark, suggesting that this dish once belonged in a Near Eastern or Indian collection.
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![图片[1]-dish BM-1954-0421.1-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00355480_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-dish BM-1954-0421.1-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00262437_001.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:A smaller dish of this design, formerly in the Edward T Chow Collection, is currently on loan to the British Museum from the Ma Foundation in Memory of K. C. Ma. Another dish of this type in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, shows minor differences in the execution of the design, testifying to the fact that they were hand painted by different craftsmen. A dish with rounded sides but without the everted rim, with similar decoration but with two dragons instead of four, is in the National Palace Museum, Taipei.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, incised, anhua (‘hidden’ design), underglazed,
Subjects:dragon
Dimensions:Diameter: 20.30 centimetres Height: 4.30 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with underglaze blue decoration. This shallow dish, which has rounded sides and an everted rim and stands on a tapering foot ring, is of remarkable quality. It is slightly sunken in the centre and consequently has a concave base. Beneath a blue-green-tinged glaze it is beautifully painted in dark uneven cobalt blue with a fierce sinewy dragon with five flexed claws on each paw, open jaws and a powerful curled body. The dragon ls set against a contrasting pale ground of delicately outlined waves, with white crests transformed into sea monsters by the addition of eyes. Surrounding this in the cavetto are undulating anhua dragons. Outside two pairs of dragons, alternately facing forwards and backwards, confront each other on a ground of waves punctuated with stylized rocks. In the middle of the six-character Xuande reign mark in a double ring on the base is a single drill mark, suggesting that this dish once belonged in a Near Eastern or Indian collection.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:A smaller dish of this design, formerly in the Edward T Chow Collection, is currently on loan to the British Museum from the Ma Foundation in Memory of K. C. Ma. Another dish of this type in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, shows minor differences in the execution of the design, testifying to the fact that they were hand painted by different craftsmen. A dish with rounded sides but without the everted rim, with similar decoration but with two dragons instead of four, is in the National Palace Museum, Taipei.
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