Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1522-1540 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:horse/ass bird
Dimensions:Diameter: 29.50 centimetres Height: 6.50 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with underglaze blue decoration. This dish has rounded sides and a flat upturned rim with a low tapering foot. Its decoration is blurred and shows inside three cranes flying clockwise among ‘ruyi’ clouds with scroll work emblems in the well and a floral rim border, and outside five roundels encircling galloping horses and a rim border of five scrolling flowers and an undulating line around the foot. The sketchily written four-character mark on the base reads 大 明 年 造 ‘Da Ming nian zao’ [Made in the Ming dynasty].
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![图片[1]-dish BM-1926-0616.1-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00325798_001.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:A similar dish with a different border is in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul. Cranes are a common emblem of longevity with Daoist associations.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:horse/ass bird
Dimensions:Diameter: 29.50 centimetres Height: 6.50 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with underglaze blue decoration. This dish has rounded sides and a flat upturned rim with a low tapering foot. Its decoration is blurred and shows inside three cranes flying clockwise among ‘ruyi’ clouds with scroll work emblems in the well and a floral rim border, and outside five roundels encircling galloping horses and a rim border of five scrolling flowers and an undulating line around the foot. The sketchily written four-character mark on the base reads 大 明 年 造 ‘Da Ming nian zao’ [Made in the Ming dynasty].
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:A similar dish with a different border is in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul. Cranes are a common emblem of longevity with Daoist associations.
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