Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1500 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:bird,flower
Dimensions:Diameter: 32 centimetres Height: 7 centimetres
Description:
Large porcelain dish with underglaze blue decoration. This dish has rounded sides and a low tapering foot. Painted in underglaze blue, a peacock is shown standing with one foot raised, surrounded by formalized peony scrolls and rocks repeated in the cavetto and outside. Iron impurities appear on the surface as brown freckles along with other flaws.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Stylistically the lotus scroll with its sketchily drawn blooms and dense foliage is typical of Hongzhi period products of private ‘min yao’ kilns. Despite the quality, people treasured and traded such dishes beyond China’s frontiers, as evidenced by their presence in the treasuries of foreign powers and their remains unearthed along Ming commercial routes. Twelve similar dishes are in the Topkapi Saray Museum in Istanbul. Another dish with a flattened rim but with a similar peacock and peony design is in the Ardebil shrine. Shards from this type of dish have been recovered from the excavations at Penny’s Bay at the north-eastern tip of Lantau Island, Hong Kong. Most of the material at the site is blue-and-white and dates between the Chenghua (1465-87) and Zhengde (1506-21) periods. Another similar dish but with a different rim and cavetto borders is in the Amaral Cabral Collection.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:bird,flower
Dimensions:Diameter: 32 centimetres Height: 7 centimetres
Description:
Large porcelain dish with underglaze blue decoration. This dish has rounded sides and a low tapering foot. Painted in underglaze blue, a peacock is shown standing with one foot raised, surrounded by formalized peony scrolls and rocks repeated in the cavetto and outside. Iron impurities appear on the surface as brown freckles along with other flaws.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Stylistically the lotus scroll with its sketchily drawn blooms and dense foliage is typical of Hongzhi period products of private ‘min yao’ kilns. Despite the quality, people treasured and traded such dishes beyond China’s frontiers, as evidenced by their presence in the treasuries of foreign powers and their remains unearthed along Ming commercial routes. Twelve similar dishes are in the Topkapi Saray Museum in Istanbul. Another dish with a flattened rim but with a similar peacock and peony design is in the Ardebil shrine. Shards from this type of dish have been recovered from the excavations at Penny’s Bay at the north-eastern tip of Lantau Island, Hong Kong. Most of the material at the site is blue-and-white and dates between the Chenghua (1465-87) and Zhengde (1506-21) periods. Another similar dish but with a different rim and cavetto borders is in the Amaral Cabral Collection.
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