dish BM-PDF-A.613

Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1426-1435
Materials:porcelain
Technique:underglazed, anhua,

Dimensions:Diameter: 203 millimetres Height: 46 millimetres

Description:
Porcelain dish with underglaze blue scrolling lotuses and phoenixes around sides and in the centre. Anhua decoration of two phoenixes painted lightly in slip on the cavetto. There is an inscription on the base.
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Comments:Published PDF date : Ming Xuande Room 95 label text:PDF A613Dish painted with phoenixesPotters painted this porcelain dish with underglaze blue scrolling lotuses and phoenixes in the centre and around the outside. In the cavetto is an 暗花 (anhua ‘secret or hidden decoration’) of raised slip, showing two phoenixes. The base has a Xuande mark in a double ring.Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue and anhua decorationJingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮Ming dynasty, Xuande mark and period, AD1426–35 PDF A613鳳紋盤陶工在此瓷盤內部中心和外壁以青花繪纏枝蓮和鳳紋。內壁用凸起的白色泥漿（泥釉）裝飾暗花（意為秘密或隱藏裝飾）雙鳳紋。外底雙圈內署宣德年款。瓷器，青花，暗花江西省景德鎮明代，宣德，宣德款，1426-1435年