Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1506-1521 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:dragon
Dimensions:Diameter: 21.40 centimetres Height: 3.80 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with underglaze blue decoration. This dish has rounded sides, an everted rim and a slightly tapering foot. It is painted under the glaze inside and out with ‘feiyu’ [flying fish dragons], soaring above stylized waves surrounded by clouds, each chasing flaming pearls. These dragons have webbed bats’ wings, scales, fins and fishes’ tails. The base is glazed but unmarked.
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![图片[1]-dish BM-1984-0202.13-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00021163_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-dish BM-1984-0202.13-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00266411_001.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Although lacking a reign mark, the dish is of extremely good-quality materials. It is dated by stylistic comparison to a ‘min yao’ water bowl on a stand unearthed from a tomb near the Jingdezhen suburbs. The bowl bears an underglaze blue inscription which includes the date fifteenth year of the Zhengde reign (1520), when the bowl was made, and records that it was made for Mme Yu in order to obtain long life and riches. The fish dragons on the water bowl, although rather simplified and hastily drawn, are similar to those on the present piece. The blue pigment is also very similar to that used on imperial Zhengde pieces mentioned above. This dish is very rare and no other identical dish has been published to date.The same type of flying fish dragon appears on earlier wares: for example, a pair of altar vases, one in the Musee Guimet, Paris, and the other in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, dated by stylistic comparison to a similar dated altar vase of 1496 in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:dragon
Dimensions:Diameter: 21.40 centimetres Height: 3.80 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with underglaze blue decoration. This dish has rounded sides, an everted rim and a slightly tapering foot. It is painted under the glaze inside and out with ‘feiyu’ [flying fish dragons], soaring above stylized waves surrounded by clouds, each chasing flaming pearls. These dragons have webbed bats’ wings, scales, fins and fishes’ tails. The base is glazed but unmarked.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Although lacking a reign mark, the dish is of extremely good-quality materials. It is dated by stylistic comparison to a ‘min yao’ water bowl on a stand unearthed from a tomb near the Jingdezhen suburbs. The bowl bears an underglaze blue inscription which includes the date fifteenth year of the Zhengde reign (1520), when the bowl was made, and records that it was made for Mme Yu in order to obtain long life and riches. The fish dragons on the water bowl, although rather simplified and hastily drawn, are similar to those on the present piece. The blue pigment is also very similar to that used on imperial Zhengde pieces mentioned above. This dish is very rare and no other identical dish has been published to date.The same type of flying fish dragon appears on earlier wares: for example, a pair of altar vases, one in the Musee Guimet, Paris, and the other in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, dated by stylistic comparison to a similar dated altar vase of 1496 in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London.
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