dish BM-PDF-A.699

Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1540-1600
Materials:porcelain
Technique:underglazed

Dimensions:Diameter: 125 millimetres Height: 17 millimetres

Description:
Porcelain dish with low flaring sides. Underglaze blue with watery landscape in various tones of blue with rocks, trees, flying birds, a pagoda and fishermen in a boat in the centre. Three bamboo sprays around the sides. There is an inscription on the base.
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Comments:Published PDF date : Ming 16th century Room 95 label text:PDF A699Blue-and-white dish with a riverscapeThe base carries an apocryphal six-character Xuande mark in underglaze blue. This mark is used as an indication of quality as the design is entirely later in the Ming dynasty. Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue decoration Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮Ming dynasty, about AD 1540–1600 PDF A699青花河景圖盤外底署青花六字宣德寄託年款。寫此年款是要說明瓷器質量好，因為瓷盤的紋飾完全是明代后期的。瓷器，青花江西省景德鎮明代，約1540–1600年