Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1600-1620 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:bird phoenix
Dimensions:Diameter: 17.50 centimetres Height: 4 centimetres
Description:
‘Swatow-type’ dish with underglaze blue decoration. This shallow dish has a low tapering foot and a broad upturned rim. It is painted in dull dark blue with a phoenix perched on one leg on a rock beside a tree peony. On the rim are four stylized flower cartouches surrounded by a fish-scale pattern. The foot ring is gritty. The dish has a beige glaze which is covered with a brown crackle and has curdled due to over-firing.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Six dishes of this type were recovered from the cargo of the Witte Leeuw, sunk in 1613 (see BM 1921.1107.1).
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:bird phoenix
Dimensions:Diameter: 17.50 centimetres Height: 4 centimetres
Description:
‘Swatow-type’ dish with underglaze blue decoration. This shallow dish has a low tapering foot and a broad upturned rim. It is painted in dull dark blue with a phoenix perched on one leg on a rock beside a tree peony. On the rim are four stylized flower cartouches surrounded by a fish-scale pattern. The foot ring is gritty. The dish has a beige glaze which is covered with a brown crackle and has curdled due to over-firing.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Six dishes of this type were recovered from the cargo of the Witte Leeuw, sunk in 1613 (see BM 1921.1107.1).
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