Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1403-1424
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed
Subjects:dragon
Dimensions:Diameter: 20.30 centimetres Height: 4 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with monochrome copper-red glaze. This shallow dish has an everted rim and a tapering foot ring. It is covered inside and out with a monochrome speckled ‘fresh’ copper-red glaze of exceptional quality. This has bled away from the rim, leaving the white porcelain body exposed. The whole surface is pitted with tiny pin pricks, like the pores of human skin, and the centre is sunken in the firing. The base is covered with a blue-tinged transparent glaze. The red glaze is basically the same clear glaze which coats white and blue-and-white wares from Jingdezhen but with a small amount of copper oxide added.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Monochrome reds were extremely difficult to produce and were made in relatively small quantities to imperial order, presumably for ceremonial purposes. Later in the Ming, illustrations of such shallow dishes appear in the sixteenth-century “Da Ming Hui Dian” (Collected Statutes of the Ming Dynasty).Another example of this type is in the Tianjin Municipal Museum.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed
Subjects:dragon
Dimensions:Diameter: 20.30 centimetres Height: 4 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with monochrome copper-red glaze. This shallow dish has an everted rim and a tapering foot ring. It is covered inside and out with a monochrome speckled ‘fresh’ copper-red glaze of exceptional quality. This has bled away from the rim, leaving the white porcelain body exposed. The whole surface is pitted with tiny pin pricks, like the pores of human skin, and the centre is sunken in the firing. The base is covered with a blue-tinged transparent glaze. The red glaze is basically the same clear glaze which coats white and blue-and-white wares from Jingdezhen but with a small amount of copper oxide added.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Monochrome reds were extremely difficult to produce and were made in relatively small quantities to imperial order, presumably for ceremonial purposes. Later in the Ming, illustrations of such shallow dishes appear in the sixteenth-century “Da Ming Hui Dian” (Collected Statutes of the Ming Dynasty).Another example of this type is in the Tianjin Municipal Museum.
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