Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1426-1435
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:flaming jewel dragon
Dimensions:Diameter: 20 centimetres Height: 4 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with underglaze blue decoration. This shallow dish and BM 1930.0421.4 have rounded sides, only this one has an everted rim and both stand on tapering foot rings. Inside they are painted with a three-cloud design known as the ‘juyun’ motif within a double ring and the inner rim is decorated with a classic scroll. Outside two dragons, each pursuing a flaming pearl, chase each other among ruyi clouds. The rim, join of foot to body and foot are emphasized with single blue lines. In the centre of the convex base is a six-character Xuande reign mark in a double ring. Superficially these dishes are identical, but there is a host of minor differences which distinguish them. For example, the cobalt used for this piece appears smoother and more controlled than the ‘heaped and piled’ and blurred blue of BM 1930.0421.4. Second, the shapes are different, one having an everted rim and the other rounded sides. Third, this dish has a whiter glaze than the other dish, which has a blue-green tinge.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:A dish with rounded sides and the same decoration of three clouds inside but with two phoenix on a lotus-scroll ground outside is in the National Palace Museum, Taipei.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:flaming jewel dragon
Dimensions:Diameter: 20 centimetres Height: 4 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with underglaze blue decoration. This shallow dish and BM 1930.0421.4 have rounded sides, only this one has an everted rim and both stand on tapering foot rings. Inside they are painted with a three-cloud design known as the ‘juyun’ motif within a double ring and the inner rim is decorated with a classic scroll. Outside two dragons, each pursuing a flaming pearl, chase each other among ruyi clouds. The rim, join of foot to body and foot are emphasized with single blue lines. In the centre of the convex base is a six-character Xuande reign mark in a double ring. Superficially these dishes are identical, but there is a host of minor differences which distinguish them. For example, the cobalt used for this piece appears smoother and more controlled than the ‘heaped and piled’ and blurred blue of BM 1930.0421.4. Second, the shapes are different, one having an everted rim and the other rounded sides. Third, this dish has a whiter glaze than the other dish, which has a blue-green tinge.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:A dish with rounded sides and the same decoration of three clouds inside but with two phoenix on a lotus-scroll ground outside is in the National Palace Museum, Taipei.
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