Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1573-1620 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, moulded, underglazed,
Subjects:insect fruit,flower mammal landscape
Dimensions:Diameter: 27.50 centimetres Height: 5 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with ‘kraak’-type underglaze blue decoration. The dish has low rounded sides, a broad everted rim and a tapering foot. The central cartouche shows two deer in a landscape and in the eight panels around the well are, clockwise: a chrysanthemum, butterfly, peony, double gourd, chrysanthemum, butterfly, peony and fan. The exterior is decorated with alternating large and small panels showing peaches or ‘ruyi’. The foot ring is coarse and gritty and the base is glazed.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Such ‘kraak’-type dishes were exported to Europe in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, as evidenced by their presence in the recovered cargoes of shipwrecks. A similarly decorated but larger dish was recovered from the San Diego, a Spanish warship, which sank on 14 December 1600 (see BM Franks. 1579). Indeed the distribution of this type of ceramic is incredibly wide. Seven shards of such a blue-and-white dish were excavated in Qal’at al-Bahrain on the Arab Gulf in the sultanate of Oman, which was in Portuguese hands during the sixteenth century.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, moulded, underglazed,
Subjects:insect fruit,flower mammal landscape
Dimensions:Diameter: 27.50 centimetres Height: 5 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with ‘kraak’-type underglaze blue decoration. The dish has low rounded sides, a broad everted rim and a tapering foot. The central cartouche shows two deer in a landscape and in the eight panels around the well are, clockwise: a chrysanthemum, butterfly, peony, double gourd, chrysanthemum, butterfly, peony and fan. The exterior is decorated with alternating large and small panels showing peaches or ‘ruyi’. The foot ring is coarse and gritty and the base is glazed.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Such ‘kraak’-type dishes were exported to Europe in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, as evidenced by their presence in the recovered cargoes of shipwrecks. A similarly decorated but larger dish was recovered from the San Diego, a Spanish warship, which sank on 14 December 1600 (see BM Franks. 1579). Indeed the distribution of this type of ceramic is incredibly wide. Seven shards of such a blue-and-white dish were excavated in Qal’at al-Bahrain on the Arab Gulf in the sultanate of Oman, which was in Portuguese hands during the sixteenth century.
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