Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1600-1630 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, painted,
Subjects:bird phoenix bamboo
Dimensions:Diameter: 37 centimetres Height: 8.20 centimetres
Description:
Large ‘Swatow-type’ porcelain serving dish, painted in polychrome enamels. This is a large serving dish with rounded sides and an in-turned foot ring. The foot is covered with rough grit from the kiln floor. The inside, outside and most of the base are covered with a thick dove-grey glaze. Inside the dish is painted with a long-legged phoenix, standing in profile, on a rock, surrounded by a giant tree peony, bamboo and ‘ruyi’ clouds. In the cavetto six octofoil cartouches frame plant motifs on a diaper ground with beaded lozenge designs in between and half-‘ruyi’ clouds at the rim and the edge of the central roundel.
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![图片[1]-dish BM-1965-1014.1-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00172787_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-dish BM-1965-1014.1-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00269036_001.jpg)
![图片[3]-dish BM-1965-1014.1-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_RRC14588.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Bought in Indonesia, this dish is typical of the polychrome wares exported from southern China and sold throughout the countries of South-east Asia in the late Ming period, sixteenth to seventeenth centuries. In the past, ‘min yao’ ceramics of this type with a coarse body with a gritty foot and base, and hastily executed designs, were known as ‘Swatow wares’. They earned their name from the port city of Zhantou in northern Guangdong from which they were shipped out of China. From recent archaeological evidence we now know that dishes of this type were produced at Pinghe county in Fujian province.Dishes of this type may be found in a number of public and private collections with minor variations, including an example in the Seikado Bunko Art Museum, Tokyo, which has an impressive collection of ‘Swatow-type’ wares.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, painted,
Subjects:bird phoenix bamboo
Dimensions:Diameter: 37 centimetres Height: 8.20 centimetres
Description:
Large ‘Swatow-type’ porcelain serving dish, painted in polychrome enamels. This is a large serving dish with rounded sides and an in-turned foot ring. The foot is covered with rough grit from the kiln floor. The inside, outside and most of the base are covered with a thick dove-grey glaze. Inside the dish is painted with a long-legged phoenix, standing in profile, on a rock, surrounded by a giant tree peony, bamboo and ‘ruyi’ clouds. In the cavetto six octofoil cartouches frame plant motifs on a diaper ground with beaded lozenge designs in between and half-‘ruyi’ clouds at the rim and the edge of the central roundel.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Bought in Indonesia, this dish is typical of the polychrome wares exported from southern China and sold throughout the countries of South-east Asia in the late Ming period, sixteenth to seventeenth centuries. In the past, ‘min yao’ ceramics of this type with a coarse body with a gritty foot and base, and hastily executed designs, were known as ‘Swatow wares’. They earned their name from the port city of Zhantou in northern Guangdong from which they were shipped out of China. From recent archaeological evidence we now know that dishes of this type were produced at Pinghe county in Fujian province.Dishes of this type may be found in a number of public and private collections with minor variations, including an example in the Seikado Bunko Art Museum, Tokyo, which has an impressive collection of ‘Swatow-type’ wares.
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