Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1400-1450 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:celadon-glazed, moulded,
Subjects:lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 44.70 centimetres Weight: 6.50 kilograms
Description:
Porcelain dish with incised and moulded designs and with green glaze. This dish weighs 6.5 kg (14.3 lb) and has deep curved sides. The foot ring and base are glazed apart from a ring for firing. The centre is decorated with a cash and trellis diaper design resembling a waffle, the well with lotus blooms. The base is drilled with four Near Eastern owner’s marks. Two are in the form of three holes forming a triangle, one consists of nine and the other of seven holes, arranged in parallel lines. On the base are two marks engraved in fine Arabic script. One is a numerical inscription in the notation known as ‘raqm’. It gives a weight -541 ‘tolas’ and 5 (written in normal Arabic numeral) ‘masha’. These are Mughal Indian coin and jewellers’ weights which record the dish’s weight. The second gives the owner’s name, A’zam Khan. There is more than one person of this title. It is possible that the dish belonged to Mir Muhammad Baqir, who was appointed Prime Minister in 1628, given this title in 1630 and died in 1649.
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![图片[1]-dish BM-1963-0520.12-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00274109_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-dish BM-1963-0520.12-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00352279_001.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Twenty-nine dishes of this design, with diameters from 39.5 to 47.5 cm are in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul. Other similar but not identical dishes are in the Ardebil shrine in Iran. Four celadon dishes marked Azam Khan are in the Salar Jang Museum in Hyderabad. The present dish was collected in India by William Cummins (see BM 1963.0520.5).
Materials:porcelain
Technique:celadon-glazed, moulded,
Subjects:lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 44.70 centimetres Weight: 6.50 kilograms
Description:
Porcelain dish with incised and moulded designs and with green glaze. This dish weighs 6.5 kg (14.3 lb) and has deep curved sides. The foot ring and base are glazed apart from a ring for firing. The centre is decorated with a cash and trellis diaper design resembling a waffle, the well with lotus blooms. The base is drilled with four Near Eastern owner’s marks. Two are in the form of three holes forming a triangle, one consists of nine and the other of seven holes, arranged in parallel lines. On the base are two marks engraved in fine Arabic script. One is a numerical inscription in the notation known as ‘raqm’. It gives a weight -541 ‘tolas’ and 5 (written in normal Arabic numeral) ‘masha’. These are Mughal Indian coin and jewellers’ weights which record the dish’s weight. The second gives the owner’s name, A’zam Khan. There is more than one person of this title. It is possible that the dish belonged to Mir Muhammad Baqir, who was appointed Prime Minister in 1628, given this title in 1630 and died in 1649.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Twenty-nine dishes of this design, with diameters from 39.5 to 47.5 cm are in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul. Other similar but not identical dishes are in the Ardebil shrine in Iran. Four celadon dishes marked Azam Khan are in the Salar Jang Museum in Hyderabad. The present dish was collected in India by William Cummins (see BM 1963.0520.5).
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