Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1522-1540 (circa)
Materials:stoneware
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:animal
Dimensions:Diameter: 31.50 centimetres Height: 7.50 centimetres
Description:
Stoneware dish with underglaze blue decoration. This warped dish has rounded sides and an everted flattened rim with bracket-lobed edge; it stands on a low inwardly tapering foot ring. Inside and out it is decorated in blackish-blue cobalt which in certain areas appears very faint beneath a failed blue-white glaze, over-fired to an uneven pale brown. Two lions are shown chasing brocade balls framed by a double ring in the centre and with interlocking scroll work in the cavetto. The rim is painted with a border of cross-hatching with surrounding semi-circles. Outside five different flowers and their foliage form roundels with single ‘ruyi’ clouds in between. The underside of the rim is painted with swirling scroll work and the base with a double ring but no mark.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The presence of this distorted and discoloured stoneware dish in the Museum’s collection, and the fact that it was purchased, testify to the then curator Soame Jenyns’ broad tastes. This dish has a brick-red unrefined body which bears no resemblance to the porcelain clay of Jingdezhen. Blue-and-white wares with similar designs to Jingdezhen porcelains were produced at non-imperial kiln sites in Yunnan, Guangdong, Fujian and Hong Kong in the Ming period and it is quite likely that the present dish is a kiln waster from one of those centres.
Materials:stoneware
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:animal
Dimensions:Diameter: 31.50 centimetres Height: 7.50 centimetres
Description:
Stoneware dish with underglaze blue decoration. This warped dish has rounded sides and an everted flattened rim with bracket-lobed edge; it stands on a low inwardly tapering foot ring. Inside and out it is decorated in blackish-blue cobalt which in certain areas appears very faint beneath a failed blue-white glaze, over-fired to an uneven pale brown. Two lions are shown chasing brocade balls framed by a double ring in the centre and with interlocking scroll work in the cavetto. The rim is painted with a border of cross-hatching with surrounding semi-circles. Outside five different flowers and their foliage form roundels with single ‘ruyi’ clouds in between. The underside of the rim is painted with swirling scroll work and the base with a double ring but no mark.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The presence of this distorted and discoloured stoneware dish in the Museum’s collection, and the fact that it was purchased, testify to the then curator Soame Jenyns’ broad tastes. This dish has a brick-red unrefined body which bears no resemblance to the porcelain clay of Jingdezhen. Blue-and-white wares with similar designs to Jingdezhen porcelains were produced at non-imperial kiln sites in Yunnan, Guangdong, Fujian and Hong Kong in the Ming period and it is quite likely that the present dish is a kiln waster from one of those centres.
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