dish BM-PDF.550

Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1426-1435
Materials:porcelain
Technique:incised, glazed, anhua, underglazed,

Dimensions:Diameter: 180 millimetres Height: 34 millimetres

Description:
Porcelain dish with rounded sides and slightly everted rim. The saucer has turquoise glaze on the exterior, plain felspathic glaze on the interior. There are three incised clouds in centre, surrounded by two dragons pursuing pearls and a moulded anhua decoration. There is a mark in underglaze blue on the base.
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Comments:Published PDF date : Ming Xuande 1426-1435 Room 95 label text:PDF 550Dish with anhua dragons and turquoise glazeCraftsmen made this technically accomplished saucer-dish by firing it twice. First, they added an 暗花 (anhua ‘secret or hidden decoration’) of raised slip showing two five-clawed dragons chasing each other and their flaming pearls, in the interior walls and incised three auspicious clouds in the centre into the leather-hard clay. Then they painted a six-character reign mark on the base in underglaze blue and coated the whole dish with a clear glaze. Potters fired the dish at a high-temperature. Next, workers applied a low-temperature turquoise glaze using a brush on the outside of the dish and refired it at a lower temperature, fixing the glaze colour. Archaeologists have excavated dishes of this type at the imperial factory at Zhushan, Jingdezhen. Porcelain with anhua, underglaze cobalt-blue, transparent and turquoise glazesJingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮Ming dynasty, Xuande mark and period, AD 1426–35 PDF 550孔雀藍釉暗花龍紋盤此托盤的製作需經二次燒成。首先，在半幹的胎體上，以暗花技術，即瀝粉在內壁飾互相追逐的兩條五爪龍及火焰寶珠，盤心刻劃三朵祥雲紋；而後於器底署青花六字年款，整器罩透明釉，並高溫燒制。第二步，工匠使用刷子于外壁塗抹低溫孔雀藍釉料，再入窯低溫二次燒成，以燒結釉色。考古學家曾於景德鎮珠山的御窯廠發掘出土類似的盤子。瓷器，暗花，青花款，透明釉及孔雀藍釉江西省景德鎮明代，宣德，宣德款，1426-1435年