Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1591 (dated)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Dimensions:Diameter: 13.50 centimetres Height: 4.20 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with monochrome pale green glaze. This heavily potted dish has an unusual shape with deep rounded sides, a gently flared rim, tapering foot and recessed base. It is glazed inside and out with a subtle celadon blue-green glaze. The base has an eight-character underglaze blue inscription arranged over two rows in a double ring. This dates the dish and records its owners. It reads ‘Wanli xinmao Ru Cheng jia zang’ [Wanli, the year xinmao (ad 1591), Ru Cheng family collection].
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![图片[1]-dish BM-1936-1012.241-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00256782_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-dish BM-1936-1012.241-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00256837_001.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The name Ru Cheng is a personal or style name. As yet the precise biographical details of such a person are unknown. It is particularly difficult to find biographical details of those living in the Ming era without a surname or official position and it is very unusual to find a dish inscribed in this way. We do know that a whole series of these dishes were made in varying sizes with the same glaze and underglaze blue mark on the base. These include one of the same size in the Schiller Collection at the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, another in the Hong Kong Museum of Art, another of the same size, from the Axel and Nora Lundgren Collection, in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm, and a slightly larger dish in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London.As Ming Wilson has suggested, this type of glaze may have been made in imitation of Song dynasty Ru ware. We know that Song porcelain glazes were copied throughout the Ming period. Ming imitations of Song glazes in the British Museum’s collections include examples of ‘ge’ ware (see BM 1968.0422.38), ‘Longquan’ ware (BM 1915.0409.6) and ‘jun’ ware (BM 1936.1012.88).
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Dimensions:Diameter: 13.50 centimetres Height: 4.20 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with monochrome pale green glaze. This heavily potted dish has an unusual shape with deep rounded sides, a gently flared rim, tapering foot and recessed base. It is glazed inside and out with a subtle celadon blue-green glaze. The base has an eight-character underglaze blue inscription arranged over two rows in a double ring. This dates the dish and records its owners. It reads ‘Wanli xinmao Ru Cheng jia zang’ [Wanli, the year xinmao (ad 1591), Ru Cheng family collection].
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The name Ru Cheng is a personal or style name. As yet the precise biographical details of such a person are unknown. It is particularly difficult to find biographical details of those living in the Ming era without a surname or official position and it is very unusual to find a dish inscribed in this way. We do know that a whole series of these dishes were made in varying sizes with the same glaze and underglaze blue mark on the base. These include one of the same size in the Schiller Collection at the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, another in the Hong Kong Museum of Art, another of the same size, from the Axel and Nora Lundgren Collection, in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm, and a slightly larger dish in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London.As Ming Wilson has suggested, this type of glaze may have been made in imitation of Song dynasty Ru ware. We know that Song porcelain glazes were copied throughout the Ming period. Ming imitations of Song glazes in the British Museum’s collections include examples of ‘ge’ ware (see BM 1968.0422.38), ‘Longquan’ ware (BM 1915.0409.6) and ‘jun’ ware (BM 1936.1012.88).
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