Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1522-1566 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:bird tree/bush scholar
Dimensions:Diameter: 12.80 centimetres Height: 2.20 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with underglaze blue decoration. This shallow dish has rounded sides and a raised centre and stands on a low tapering foot ring. Inside, within a double ring medallion, it is decorated in underglaze blue with a figural scene showing a scholar sitting in a garden beneath a pine tree, approached by a servant. Around the rim is a diaper border of a type found on kinrande dishes in the Jiajing era. Outside it is painted with two flowering and fruiting branches with birds perched on them and individual leaves shown drifting through the air between. The base is marked with a badly written Hongwu mark which reads 洪武 年 造 ‘Hongwu nian zao’ [Made in the Hongwu reign period] in a double ring beneath a blue-tinged glaze typical of the sixteenth century.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:In reality Hongwu period porcelain was not marked in this way with underglaze blue marks. Reign marks were only introduced in the succeeding Yongle era at Jingdezhen in archaic script, both incised into the body and in cobalt pigment beneath the glaze.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:bird tree/bush scholar
Dimensions:Diameter: 12.80 centimetres Height: 2.20 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with underglaze blue decoration. This shallow dish has rounded sides and a raised centre and stands on a low tapering foot ring. Inside, within a double ring medallion, it is decorated in underglaze blue with a figural scene showing a scholar sitting in a garden beneath a pine tree, approached by a servant. Around the rim is a diaper border of a type found on kinrande dishes in the Jiajing era. Outside it is painted with two flowering and fruiting branches with birds perched on them and individual leaves shown drifting through the air between. The base is marked with a badly written Hongwu mark which reads 洪武 年 造 ‘Hongwu nian zao’ [Made in the Hongwu reign period] in a double ring beneath a blue-tinged glaze typical of the sixteenth century.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:In reality Hongwu period porcelain was not marked in this way with underglaze blue marks. Reign marks were only introduced in the succeeding Yongle era at Jingdezhen in archaic script, both incised into the body and in cobalt pigment beneath the glaze.
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