Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1573-1620
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:fish
Dimensions:Diameter: 18 centimetres Height: 3.80 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with underglaze blue decoration. This saucer-shaped dish has rounded sides, a flared rim and a tapering foot. It is made of high-quality porcelain with pale blue underglaze cobalt decoration and dark blue details, such as the fish scales and outlines of the design. Inside in a roundel two fish swim among aquatic plants in opposite directions, bordered with a double ring. Outside assorted fish swim in different attitudes among aquatic plants spotted with dark blue dots. The base carries a four-character archaic mark in a square, surrounded by four further characters in a ring, imitating the form of a Chinese coin. The mark in the square reads ‘De hua chang chun’ [Virtue, culture and enduring spring] and round the outside ‘Wanli nian zao’ [Made in the Wanli reign period]. It is also marked through the glaze with a Chinese owner’s mark scratched into the base with a fine-pointed instrument. This mark reads 三 ‘san’ [three] and possibly 奏 本 ‘zou ben’, which may be a name.
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Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:fish
Dimensions:Diameter: 18 centimetres Height: 3.80 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with underglaze blue decoration. This saucer-shaped dish has rounded sides, a flared rim and a tapering foot. It is made of high-quality porcelain with pale blue underglaze cobalt decoration and dark blue details, such as the fish scales and outlines of the design. Inside in a roundel two fish swim among aquatic plants in opposite directions, bordered with a double ring. Outside assorted fish swim in different attitudes among aquatic plants spotted with dark blue dots. The base carries a four-character archaic mark in a square, surrounded by four further characters in a ring, imitating the form of a Chinese coin. The mark in the square reads ‘De hua chang chun’ [Virtue, culture and enduring spring] and round the outside ‘Wanli nian zao’ [Made in the Wanli reign period]. It is also marked through the glaze with a Chinese owner’s mark scratched into the base with a fine-pointed instrument. This mark reads 三 ‘san’ [three] and possibly 奏 本 ‘zou ben’, which may be a name.
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