Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1620-1644 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, painted, underglazed,
Subjects:bird fruit the three friends of winter
Dimensions:Diameter: 14 centimetres Height: 3.40 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with enemel decoration. This dish has rounded sides and a tapering flared foot. The pictorial decoration, which covers the whole dish, shows a crane raising its head to another perched in a pine tree with bamboo and prunus executed in overglaze turquoise, yellow, green, red, black and aubergine enamels. Outside the dish is painted with two fruiting peach branches. On the base is an apocryphal four-character Xuande mark in underglaze blue.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The imagery here of cranes, peaches and the Three Friends of Winter – pine, bamboo and prunus – is all related to wishes for long life and happiness.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, painted, underglazed,
Subjects:bird fruit the three friends of winter
Dimensions:Diameter: 14 centimetres Height: 3.40 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with enemel decoration. This dish has rounded sides and a tapering flared foot. The pictorial decoration, which covers the whole dish, shows a crane raising its head to another perched in a pine tree with bamboo and prunus executed in overglaze turquoise, yellow, green, red, black and aubergine enamels. Outside the dish is painted with two fruiting peach branches. On the base is an apocryphal four-character Xuande mark in underglaze blue.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The imagery here of cranes, peaches and the Three Friends of Winter – pine, bamboo and prunus – is all related to wishes for long life and happiness.
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