Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1506-1521
Materials:porcelain
Technique:incised, glazed, painted, underglazed,
Subjects:dragon
Dimensions:Diameter: 18 centimetres Height: 3.60 centimetres
Description:
A pair of porcelain dishes with incised and green enamel decoration on a white ground. These two dishes each have rounded sides, an everted rim and a tapering foot. Inside they are incised with a dragon prancing on its forelegs among ‘ruyi’ clouds. The outside has two dragons shown in profile, pursuing each other. These designs are overglazed in dark green enamel on a pure white ground. The base carries a six-character Zhengde reign mark within a double circle in underglaze blue. There are also two shallow holes bored in each base as a mark of ownership.
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![图片[1]-dish BM-Franks.389-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00265016_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-dish BM-Franks.389-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00265018_001.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Such dishes are quite common. Other examples are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Princessehof Museum, Leeuwarden, the Eli Lilly Collection in the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, University of Durham.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:incised, glazed, painted, underglazed,
Subjects:dragon
Dimensions:Diameter: 18 centimetres Height: 3.60 centimetres
Description:
A pair of porcelain dishes with incised and green enamel decoration on a white ground. These two dishes each have rounded sides, an everted rim and a tapering foot. Inside they are incised with a dragon prancing on its forelegs among ‘ruyi’ clouds. The outside has two dragons shown in profile, pursuing each other. These designs are overglazed in dark green enamel on a pure white ground. The base carries a six-character Zhengde reign mark within a double circle in underglaze blue. There are also two shallow holes bored in each base as a mark of ownership.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Such dishes are quite common. Other examples are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Princessehof Museum, Leeuwarden, the Eli Lilly Collection in the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, University of Durham.
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