Period:Yuan dynasty Production date:1280-1368 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, moulded,
Subjects:lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 16 centimetres Height: 4.90 centimetres
Description:
Dish with moulded design, shufu characters and luanbai glaze. Slightly larger than BM 1930.0217.1, this example has rounded sides and stands on a small, neatly cut, round foot ring. Inside it has a press-moulded design of a stylized lotus scroll with four blooms in a central roundel and with six blooms in the cavetto. Two characters, reading ‘shu’ and 府 ‘fu’, are moulded into the cavetto among the foliage scrolls. Inside and out the dish is covered with a luanbai opaque blue-white glaze which is much worn inside. The base is unglazed and is turned to a central nipple. It has a chipped rim and foot and several hairline cracks emanating from the rim.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Similar dishes have been recovered in numerous Yuan hoards, including one discovered in Le’an, Jiangxi province, in 1984.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, moulded,
Subjects:lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 16 centimetres Height: 4.90 centimetres
Description:
Dish with moulded design, shufu characters and luanbai glaze. Slightly larger than BM 1930.0217.1, this example has rounded sides and stands on a small, neatly cut, round foot ring. Inside it has a press-moulded design of a stylized lotus scroll with four blooms in a central roundel and with six blooms in the cavetto. Two characters, reading ‘shu’ and 府 ‘fu’, are moulded into the cavetto among the foliage scrolls. Inside and out the dish is covered with a luanbai opaque blue-white glaze which is much worn inside. The base is unglazed and is turned to a central nipple. It has a chipped rim and foot and several hairline cracks emanating from the rim.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Similar dishes have been recovered in numerous Yuan hoards, including one discovered in Le’an, Jiangxi province, in 1984.
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