Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1403-1424
Materials:porcelain, gold,
Technique:glazed, gilded,
Dimensions:Diameter: 36.70 centimetres Height: 5.40 centimetres
Description:
Large porcelain dish with monochrome white glaze and now-vanished gilt decoration. This large shallow dish has rounded sides, a flattened upturned rim with a thickened edge and a low foot ring. It is glazed inside and out with a monochrome blue-tinged white glaze. The base is unglazed and has fired with an orange cast typical of the early Ming period. Traces of gilt decoration, or rather the ‘shadow’ of where it was applied, are visible inside. Around the rim is lingzhi scroll work, and flower scrolls in the cavetto appear if the dish is tilted to the light at an appropriate angle. Inside a double bracket-lobed medallion in the centre are three large blooms and foliage.
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![图片[1]-dish BM-1975-1028.13-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00525011_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-dish BM-1975-1028.13-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00525010_001.jpg)
![图片[3]-dish BM-1975-1028.13-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00254491_001.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Potters in north China have been adding gold leaf to white ceramics since the Song dynasty at, for example, the Ding kilns. More recent excavations have revealed that the southern potters at Jingdezhen continued this tradition in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. A globular bowl with a similar gilt design, which is mostly intact, was excavated in Jingdezhen at Dongmentou in 1994 in the Yongle stratum.
Materials:porcelain, gold,
Technique:glazed, gilded,
Dimensions:Diameter: 36.70 centimetres Height: 5.40 centimetres
Description:
Large porcelain dish with monochrome white glaze and now-vanished gilt decoration. This large shallow dish has rounded sides, a flattened upturned rim with a thickened edge and a low foot ring. It is glazed inside and out with a monochrome blue-tinged white glaze. The base is unglazed and has fired with an orange cast typical of the early Ming period. Traces of gilt decoration, or rather the ‘shadow’ of where it was applied, are visible inside. Around the rim is lingzhi scroll work, and flower scrolls in the cavetto appear if the dish is tilted to the light at an appropriate angle. Inside a double bracket-lobed medallion in the centre are three large blooms and foliage.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Potters in north China have been adding gold leaf to white ceramics since the Song dynasty at, for example, the Ding kilns. More recent excavations have revealed that the southern potters at Jingdezhen continued this tradition in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. A globular bowl with a similar gilt design, which is mostly intact, was excavated in Jingdezhen at Dongmentou in 1994 in the Yongle stratum.
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