Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1573-1620
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, painted, underglazed,
Subjects:dragon
Dimensions:Diameter: 12.80 centimetres Height: 2.50 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with underglaze blue, overglaze yellow, red and black enamels. This dish has rounded sides, an everted rim and a tapering foot. It is decorated with five dragons, two outside, two in the cavetto and one shown full face in the centre. Before the first firing, these were delineated in underglaze blue and reserved in white on an underglaze blue ground. Then the dragons were painted yellow, outlined in black and red. Details such as their scales and eyes were added in red and the dish fired a second time at a lower temperature. Inner and outer rim, foot and central medallion are all outlined with yellow. On the base in a double ring is a six-character Wanli reign mark. The rim has been ground and has two small chips.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:An identical dish is in the Baur Collection, Geneva. Similar designs were used during the preceding reign of the Jiajing emperor but without the red enamel. An example of a Jiajing mark and period box and cover of this type is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. The technique was also used in the Longqing era, as evidenced by a Longqing mark and period dish with lobed rim in the Baur Collection, Geneva.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, painted, underglazed,
Subjects:dragon
Dimensions:Diameter: 12.80 centimetres Height: 2.50 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with underglaze blue, overglaze yellow, red and black enamels. This dish has rounded sides, an everted rim and a tapering foot. It is decorated with five dragons, two outside, two in the cavetto and one shown full face in the centre. Before the first firing, these were delineated in underglaze blue and reserved in white on an underglaze blue ground. Then the dragons were painted yellow, outlined in black and red. Details such as their scales and eyes were added in red and the dish fired a second time at a lower temperature. Inner and outer rim, foot and central medallion are all outlined with yellow. On the base in a double ring is a six-character Wanli reign mark. The rim has been ground and has two small chips.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:An identical dish is in the Baur Collection, Geneva. Similar designs were used during the preceding reign of the Jiajing emperor but without the red enamel. An example of a Jiajing mark and period box and cover of this type is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. The technique was also used in the Longqing era, as evidenced by a Longqing mark and period dish with lobed rim in the Baur Collection, Geneva.
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