Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1573-1620 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:bird phoenix insect dragon
Dimensions:Diameter: 36.60 centimetres Height: 8 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with underglaze blue decoration. This heavily potted dish has rounded sides and stands on a tapering foot. It is painted in dark underglaze blue in the centre with a phoenix standing in front of a flowering tree peony with a moon above and a pair of birds and insects flying in the sky. This is encircled by a triple ring. In the cavetto are four dragons, reserved in white, prancing alternately on their fore and hind legs and separated by four trigrams in medallions. Outside it is painted with flowers forming roundels arranged in three opposite pairs, including lotus, and all the flower roundels are separated by ‘ruyi’ clouds. A classic scroll adorns the foot. The base is heavily pitted and marked with four characters in a mock seal which read 富 贵 佳 器 ‘Fu gui jia qi’ [Fine vessel for the rich and honourable].
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Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:bird phoenix insect dragon
Dimensions:Diameter: 36.60 centimetres Height: 8 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with underglaze blue decoration. This heavily potted dish has rounded sides and stands on a tapering foot. It is painted in dark underglaze blue in the centre with a phoenix standing in front of a flowering tree peony with a moon above and a pair of birds and insects flying in the sky. This is encircled by a triple ring. In the cavetto are four dragons, reserved in white, prancing alternately on their fore and hind legs and separated by four trigrams in medallions. Outside it is painted with flowers forming roundels arranged in three opposite pairs, including lotus, and all the flower roundels are separated by ‘ruyi’ clouds. A classic scroll adorns the foot. The base is heavily pitted and marked with four characters in a mock seal which read 富 贵 佳 器 ‘Fu gui jia qi’ [Fine vessel for the rich and honourable].
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