Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1403-1424
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:fruit symbol,flower lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 37.30 centimetres Height: 6.90 centimetres Weight: 1.75 kilograms
Description:
Large porcelain dish with underglaze blue decoration. This dish has rounded sides, a flat rising rim with a rolled edge, raised foot ring and slightly convex base. It is painted under the glaze in blue with a fruiting and flowering melon plant growing out of soil, and in the well with eight flowering plants joined in a continuous scroll showing (clockwise from the top): pomegranate, tree peony, herbaceous peony, lotus, rose, camellia, rose, chrysanthemum. The rim shows a wave border with crests reserved in white. Outside the dish is decorated with six separate sprays of auspicious fruiting plants: cherry, ginkgo, peach, lychee, grape and pomegranate. The base is unglazed.
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![图片[1]-dish BM-1954-0420.1-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00262633_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-dish BM-1954-0420.1-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00534172_001.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:This dish can be dated by stylistic comparison to an almost identical dish excavated in the Yongle stratum at Dongmentou, Zhushan, Jingdezhen, in 1994. Dishes of this type were made for the domestic market, and were also traded in the Near East. An almost identical example is in the Topkapi Saray Museum in Istanbul. Another is in the Ardebil shrine. These dishes are quite rare, but another example is in the Tianminlou Foundation.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:fruit symbol,flower lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 37.30 centimetres Height: 6.90 centimetres Weight: 1.75 kilograms
Description:
Large porcelain dish with underglaze blue decoration. This dish has rounded sides, a flat rising rim with a rolled edge, raised foot ring and slightly convex base. It is painted under the glaze in blue with a fruiting and flowering melon plant growing out of soil, and in the well with eight flowering plants joined in a continuous scroll showing (clockwise from the top): pomegranate, tree peony, herbaceous peony, lotus, rose, camellia, rose, chrysanthemum. The rim shows a wave border with crests reserved in white. Outside the dish is decorated with six separate sprays of auspicious fruiting plants: cherry, ginkgo, peach, lychee, grape and pomegranate. The base is unglazed.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:This dish can be dated by stylistic comparison to an almost identical dish excavated in the Yongle stratum at Dongmentou, Zhushan, Jingdezhen, in 1994. Dishes of this type were made for the domestic market, and were also traded in the Near East. An almost identical example is in the Topkapi Saray Museum in Istanbul. Another is in the Ardebil shrine. These dishes are quite rare, but another example is in the Tianminlou Foundation.
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