Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1465-1487
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, painted, underglazed,
Subjects:plant fruit,flower lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 25.70 centimetres Height: 5 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish decorated with underglaze blue and an overglaze yellow enamel ground. This dish has rounded sides, an everted rim and a tapering foot. Inside the dish is slightly sunken where the foot ring joins the body. Its base is unglazed and peppered with tiny brown and black dots like grated nutmeg on milk. In the centre of the base is a drilled mark with seven small holes, indicating that it was once in an Indian or Middle Eastern collection. Typical of the Chenghua era, the light blue is applied in pale washes to paint the gardenia in the centre, the pomegranate, persimmon, grapes and tied lotus around the cavetto, the camellia scroll outside and double lines around the inner and outer rim, the inner medallion, the foot and join of foot to dish.
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![图片[1]-dish BM-1945-1016.2-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00014138_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-dish BM-1945-1016.2-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00269138_001.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The yellow enamel is stronger than that found on dishes of the same type pioneered in the Xuande reign. Although essentially a continuation of the Xuande type, Chenghua examples have a higher more delicately potted foot. The six-character mark is also found written horizontally at the rim, but on the Chenghua examples it is reserved in a rectangular cartouche whereas on the Xuande examples it is covered by yellow enamel and is consequently less prominent (see BM 1945.1016.3).
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, painted, underglazed,
Subjects:plant fruit,flower lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 25.70 centimetres Height: 5 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish decorated with underglaze blue and an overglaze yellow enamel ground. This dish has rounded sides, an everted rim and a tapering foot. Inside the dish is slightly sunken where the foot ring joins the body. Its base is unglazed and peppered with tiny brown and black dots like grated nutmeg on milk. In the centre of the base is a drilled mark with seven small holes, indicating that it was once in an Indian or Middle Eastern collection. Typical of the Chenghua era, the light blue is applied in pale washes to paint the gardenia in the centre, the pomegranate, persimmon, grapes and tied lotus around the cavetto, the camellia scroll outside and double lines around the inner and outer rim, the inner medallion, the foot and join of foot to dish.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The yellow enamel is stronger than that found on dishes of the same type pioneered in the Xuande reign. Although essentially a continuation of the Xuande type, Chenghua examples have a higher more delicately potted foot. The six-character mark is also found written horizontally at the rim, but on the Chenghua examples it is reserved in a rectangular cartouche whereas on the Xuande examples it is covered by yellow enamel and is consequently less prominent (see BM 1945.1016.3).
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