Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1573-1620 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:mammal fruit landscape
Dimensions:Diameter: 20.50 centimetres Height: 3.20 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with ‘kraak’-type underglaze blue decoration. This dish has very shallow rounded sides, a wide everted rim with a lobed edge and a gritty tapering foot. It is painted with cobalt which has fired to a dull dark blue and shows two deer in a landscape among stylized rocks and with a large pine tree in the background, surrounded by radiating panels containing alternately paired panels of single flowers and bunches of peaches bordered by narrow panels with dots and spiral designs. The four panels on the reverse are painted with a motif comprising four dots orbiting a spiral.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Similar shards have been recovered from the cargo of the Witte Leeuw, a homeward-bound Dutch East Indiaman, sunk in 1613 (see BM 1921.1107.1). Many variants of this design existed, as evidenced by examples in a private Malaysian collection.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:mammal fruit landscape
Dimensions:Diameter: 20.50 centimetres Height: 3.20 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with ‘kraak’-type underglaze blue decoration. This dish has very shallow rounded sides, a wide everted rim with a lobed edge and a gritty tapering foot. It is painted with cobalt which has fired to a dull dark blue and shows two deer in a landscape among stylized rocks and with a large pine tree in the background, surrounded by radiating panels containing alternately paired panels of single flowers and bunches of peaches bordered by narrow panels with dots and spiral designs. The four panels on the reverse are painted with a motif comprising four dots orbiting a spiral.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Similar shards have been recovered from the cargo of the Witte Leeuw, a homeward-bound Dutch East Indiaman, sunk in 1613 (see BM 1921.1107.1). Many variants of this design existed, as evidenced by examples in a private Malaysian collection.
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