Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1621-1628 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:eight precious things mammal bird
Dimensions:Diameter: 25.50 centimetres Height: 2.80 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with underglaze blue decoration and inscription. This flat dish is differently potted from BM Franks. 280+. It has a flat slightly upturned rim, and the rounded sides are cut at an angle to the foot, which is gritty. The base is glazed and chatter-marked. Inside it is painted with a design of three men, dressed in long robes, standing beneath a pine tree on a river bank accompanied by a deer and a crane. One figure points to the sun, while the others gaze out over the waves. An inscription to the left reads ‘San gong zhi ri dong sheng’ [Three gentlemen point to the sun rising in the east]. Beneath it is a single-character seal mark in a double square which reads ‘fu’ [happiness]. Around the rim is a double band of alternating blue-and-white checks. The exterior is decorated with opposing pairs of lozenge-shaped pictures symbolizing the cultural status of a scholar and stylized coins representing wishes for material riches. These emblems are part of the Eight Precious Things.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The checkerboard pattern is unknown prior to the Tianqi era. A dish in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, also with the checked border, shows a figure holding a broom, identified as Shide, the Tang dynasty Chan Buddhist sage, pointing to a rising sun with another inscription, ‘Zhi ri gao sheng Bifeng ti’, [Pointing at the rising sun; inscribed by Bifeng]. The first four characters are interpreted as a pun meaning ‘May you soon be promoted’.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:eight precious things mammal bird
Dimensions:Diameter: 25.50 centimetres Height: 2.80 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with underglaze blue decoration and inscription. This flat dish is differently potted from BM Franks. 280+. It has a flat slightly upturned rim, and the rounded sides are cut at an angle to the foot, which is gritty. The base is glazed and chatter-marked. Inside it is painted with a design of three men, dressed in long robes, standing beneath a pine tree on a river bank accompanied by a deer and a crane. One figure points to the sun, while the others gaze out over the waves. An inscription to the left reads ‘San gong zhi ri dong sheng’ [Three gentlemen point to the sun rising in the east]. Beneath it is a single-character seal mark in a double square which reads ‘fu’ [happiness]. Around the rim is a double band of alternating blue-and-white checks. The exterior is decorated with opposing pairs of lozenge-shaped pictures symbolizing the cultural status of a scholar and stylized coins representing wishes for material riches. These emblems are part of the Eight Precious Things.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The checkerboard pattern is unknown prior to the Tianqi era. A dish in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, also with the checked border, shows a figure holding a broom, identified as Shide, the Tang dynasty Chan Buddhist sage, pointing to a rising sun with another inscription, ‘Zhi ri gao sheng Bifeng ti’, [Pointing at the rising sun; inscribed by Bifeng]. The first four characters are interpreted as a pun meaning ‘May you soon be promoted’.
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