Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1426-1435
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:plant fish lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 21.20 centimetres Height: 5 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with underglaze blue decoration. This dish has rounded sides, an everted rim and a low tapering foot. During the firing it has sunk in the centre and the base is consequently convex. Two fish -a carp and a mandarin fish – swim clockwise among schematically arranged aquatic plants – ferns, duck weed and lotus – within a double ring medallion. Around the rim is a band of waves painted in thin concentric lines with white crests. Outside four fish – a mandarin fish, two varieties of carp and a type of fresh-water mullet – swim in different attitudes among a similar range of vegetation. Typically the join of foot to dish, the inner and outer rim, and the foot are emphasized by single and double lines respectively. A six-character underglaze blue reign mark of the Xuande emperor appears on the base in a double ring.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The four fish around the outside have been variously identified as: 鲭 ‘qing’, a prettily marked fresh-water mullet; 白 ‘bai’, a variety of carp; 鲤 ‘li’, carp, or 鲢 ‘lian’, a kind of bream; and 鳜 ‘gui’, a mandarin fish, a breed of perch with a large mouth and small scales. Chinese scholars from the mainland and Taiwan have suggested that the combination of these kinds of fish among the lotus plants stands for a four-character phrase, ‘qing (清) bai (白) li jie’, meaning ‘unsullied and incorruptible’ – a reference to the Confucian ideal concept of the upright gentleman. The lotus is regarded as a symbol of purity as it grows in mud but this does not affect its beauty.A dish of this type was excavated in the Xuande stratum at Zhushan, Jingdezhen, in 1993. Dishes with similar fish designs in white reserve on a blue ground and with a turquoise overglaze were also excavated there. Another identical dish is in the imperial collection at the National Palace Museum, Taipei.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:plant fish lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 21.20 centimetres Height: 5 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with underglaze blue decoration. This dish has rounded sides, an everted rim and a low tapering foot. During the firing it has sunk in the centre and the base is consequently convex. Two fish -a carp and a mandarin fish – swim clockwise among schematically arranged aquatic plants – ferns, duck weed and lotus – within a double ring medallion. Around the rim is a band of waves painted in thin concentric lines with white crests. Outside four fish – a mandarin fish, two varieties of carp and a type of fresh-water mullet – swim in different attitudes among a similar range of vegetation. Typically the join of foot to dish, the inner and outer rim, and the foot are emphasized by single and double lines respectively. A six-character underglaze blue reign mark of the Xuande emperor appears on the base in a double ring.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The four fish around the outside have been variously identified as: 鲭 ‘qing’, a prettily marked fresh-water mullet; 白 ‘bai’, a variety of carp; 鲤 ‘li’, carp, or 鲢 ‘lian’, a kind of bream; and 鳜 ‘gui’, a mandarin fish, a breed of perch with a large mouth and small scales. Chinese scholars from the mainland and Taiwan have suggested that the combination of these kinds of fish among the lotus plants stands for a four-character phrase, ‘qing (清) bai (白) li jie’, meaning ‘unsullied and incorruptible’ – a reference to the Confucian ideal concept of the upright gentleman. The lotus is regarded as a symbol of purity as it grows in mud but this does not affect its beauty.A dish of this type was excavated in the Xuande stratum at Zhushan, Jingdezhen, in 1993. Dishes with similar fish designs in white reserve on a blue ground and with a turquoise overglaze were also excavated there. Another identical dish is in the imperial collection at the National Palace Museum, Taipei.
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