Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1426-1435
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed
Subjects:fruit lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 17.30 centimetres Height: 5 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with iron-brown decoration on a white glazed ground. This large dish has rounded sides, an everted rim and a low tapering foot cut inwards towards the base. Its slightly convex base is unglazed, revealing a pale creamy body paste liberally sprinkled with tiny orange and brown flecks – iron impurities in the porcelain. The design is the same as that of BM 1968.0422.31, but it is executed in iron-brown on a white ground. In the central medallion is a single flowering pomegranate and in the cavetto are four fruiting branches: peach, probably lychee, loquat and persimmon. Outside there are four individual lotus sprays. The inner and outer rims, foot and join of dish to foot are emphasized by single brown lines. At the top of the dish, outside below the rim, is a six-character Xuande reign mark written from right to left in a horizontal line.
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![图片[1]-dish BM-1945-1016.10-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00254977_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-dish BM-1945-1016.10-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_RRC11896_base.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Xuande dishes combining pale iron-brown with white grounds are extremely rare. A related dish decorated in this way, with different fruits and flowers and with a glazed base and underglaze blue Xuande reign mark in a double ring, is in the National Palace Museum, Taipei. A much larger dish (diameter 39 cm), decorated with a tree peony in the centre and six different fruit sprays in the cavetto, also with a Xuande mark, is in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed
Subjects:fruit lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 17.30 centimetres Height: 5 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with iron-brown decoration on a white glazed ground. This large dish has rounded sides, an everted rim and a low tapering foot cut inwards towards the base. Its slightly convex base is unglazed, revealing a pale creamy body paste liberally sprinkled with tiny orange and brown flecks – iron impurities in the porcelain. The design is the same as that of BM 1968.0422.31, but it is executed in iron-brown on a white ground. In the central medallion is a single flowering pomegranate and in the cavetto are four fruiting branches: peach, probably lychee, loquat and persimmon. Outside there are four individual lotus sprays. The inner and outer rims, foot and join of dish to foot are emphasized by single brown lines. At the top of the dish, outside below the rim, is a six-character Xuande reign mark written from right to left in a horizontal line.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Xuande dishes combining pale iron-brown with white grounds are extremely rare. A related dish decorated in this way, with different fruits and flowers and with a glazed base and underglaze blue Xuande reign mark in a double ring, is in the National Palace Museum, Taipei. A much larger dish (diameter 39 cm), decorated with a tree peony in the centre and six different fruit sprays in the cavetto, also with a Xuande mark, is in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm.
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