Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1573-1620
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, painted,
Dimensions:Diameter: 398 millimetres Height: 86 millimetres
Description:
Swatow-type Zhangzhou Export Ware porcelain dish. Decorated with overglaze turquoise, black and red enamels. Central motif inside of ‘split pagoda’ design. Four panels in cavetto, each enclosing a landscape scene, alternating with four indecipherable red seal character impressions. Outside undecorated, base splashed with glaze.
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Comments:Room 95 label text:PDF A709Dish depicting the path to the island of the ImmortalsThis heavily potted and crudely painted dish was made for export in the Chinese coastal province of Fujian. Collectors and scholars called such porcelains ‘Swatow’ wares after an old Dutch transliteration of Shantou, a port in northern Guangong province, mistakenly believed to have been the port from which they were shipped. Merchants traded them to countries in Southeast Asia such as Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia as well as to Japan and Holland. They are characterised by coarse sandy bases and designs rendered in free and spontaneous brushstrokes. Porcelain with overglaze turquoise, red and black enamelsZhangzhou (‘Swatow’) warePinghe county, Zhangzhou prefecture, Fujian province, 福建省, 漳州, 平和縣Ming dynasty, about AD1573–1620 PDF A709海路仙島圖盤這件瓷盤胎體厚重，繪畫粗率，系中國沿海省份福建為出口所製。收藏家和學者們將此類器物稱為“汕頭器”（Swatow），源于老荷蘭語音譯的“汕頭”一詞。汕頭為廣東省北部的一個港口，被誤認為是這些器物起運的港口。商人們將之銷往東南亞國家，諸如印尼、菲律賓和馬來西亞，同時也行銷日本和荷蘭。器物以粗砂底為特徵。紋飾皆筆法自然自由揮灑。瓷器，釉上鈷藍、紅及黑彩漳州（汕頭）器福建省漳州平和縣明代，約1573-1620年
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, painted,
Dimensions:Diameter: 398 millimetres Height: 86 millimetres
Description:
Swatow-type Zhangzhou Export Ware porcelain dish. Decorated with overglaze turquoise, black and red enamels. Central motif inside of ‘split pagoda’ design. Four panels in cavetto, each enclosing a landscape scene, alternating with four indecipherable red seal character impressions. Outside undecorated, base splashed with glaze.
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Comments:Room 95 label text:PDF A709Dish depicting the path to the island of the ImmortalsThis heavily potted and crudely painted dish was made for export in the Chinese coastal province of Fujian. Collectors and scholars called such porcelains ‘Swatow’ wares after an old Dutch transliteration of Shantou, a port in northern Guangong province, mistakenly believed to have been the port from which they were shipped. Merchants traded them to countries in Southeast Asia such as Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia as well as to Japan and Holland. They are characterised by coarse sandy bases and designs rendered in free and spontaneous brushstrokes. Porcelain with overglaze turquoise, red and black enamelsZhangzhou (‘Swatow’) warePinghe county, Zhangzhou prefecture, Fujian province, 福建省, 漳州, 平和縣Ming dynasty, about AD1573–1620 PDF A709海路仙島圖盤這件瓷盤胎體厚重，繪畫粗率，系中國沿海省份福建為出口所製。收藏家和學者們將此類器物稱為“汕頭器”（Swatow），源于老荷蘭語音譯的“汕頭”一詞。汕頭為廣東省北部的一個港口，被誤認為是這些器物起運的港口。商人們將之銷往東南亞國家，諸如印尼、菲律賓和馬來西亞，同時也行銷日本和荷蘭。器物以粗砂底為特徵。紋飾皆筆法自然自由揮灑。瓷器，釉上鈷藍、紅及黑彩漳州（汕頭）器福建省漳州平和縣明代，約1573-1620年
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