Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1540-1566 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:bird phoenix lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 20 centimetres Height: 3.80 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with underglaze blue decoration. This dish has rounded ribbed sides and a flared rim with a barbed edge. It is decorated with a hastily painted flying phoenix surrounded by lotus scrolls in a double ring with a rim border of rocks and dots. Outside beneath the rim is a band of leafy scroll work and another of spirals around the foot. On the base is a round coin mark with a square hole in the centre with four characters, ‘Chang ming fu gui’ [Long life, riches and honour].
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:This dish is dated by stylistic comparison to an identical dish recovered from the wreck of the Sao Bento, a Portuguese trading vessel which sank with its cargo of Chinese porcelain on 1 February 1554 in the mouth of the Msikaba river, South Africa. Its presence on the wrecked ship confirms that this type of dish, made in a commercial kiln, was traded with Europe. Round Chinese coins designed with a square hole in the middle originated in China in the fourth century BC and were last made in this form in the early twentieth century when a more Western style was adopted with pictorial images in place of the square hole. The hole enabled groups of coins to be strung together.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:bird phoenix lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 20 centimetres Height: 3.80 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with underglaze blue decoration. This dish has rounded ribbed sides and a flared rim with a barbed edge. It is decorated with a hastily painted flying phoenix surrounded by lotus scrolls in a double ring with a rim border of rocks and dots. Outside beneath the rim is a band of leafy scroll work and another of spirals around the foot. On the base is a round coin mark with a square hole in the centre with four characters, ‘Chang ming fu gui’ [Long life, riches and honour].
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:This dish is dated by stylistic comparison to an identical dish recovered from the wreck of the Sao Bento, a Portuguese trading vessel which sank with its cargo of Chinese porcelain on 1 February 1554 in the mouth of the Msikaba river, South Africa. Its presence on the wrecked ship confirms that this type of dish, made in a commercial kiln, was traded with Europe. Round Chinese coins designed with a square hole in the middle originated in China in the fourth century BC and were last made in this form in the early twentieth century when a more Western style was adopted with pictorial images in place of the square hole. The hole enabled groups of coins to be strung together.
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