Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1628-1644 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:moulded, glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:bird,flower fruit tree/bush
Dimensions:Diameter: 15.50 centimetres Height: 3.40 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with underglaze blue decoration and iron-brown rim. This dish has lobed sides and a low gritty foot. Inside it is decorated with designs reserved in white on a cloudy blue wash ground. In the centre a bird is shown perched on a fruit tree; in the cavetto are sprays of fruiting peach, peony, ‘lingzhi’ fungus and camellia. The rim edge is painted toffee brown and has a firing crack. A hastily written six-character Chenghua reign mark appears on the chatter-marked base, reading ‘Da Ming Chenghua nian zhi’.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The crisp shape of this dish together with its firing cracks, chatter marks, grit adhesions to the foot, dense decoration, brown-painted rim and false Chenghua mark make it a typical product of the late Ming Chongzhen period. Such dishes were copied in Japan between 1850 and 1946, though with a more precise rim, brighter blue glaze and a shallow in-turned foot to either side of which grit was applied deliberately.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:moulded, glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:bird,flower fruit tree/bush
Dimensions:Diameter: 15.50 centimetres Height: 3.40 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with underglaze blue decoration and iron-brown rim. This dish has lobed sides and a low gritty foot. Inside it is decorated with designs reserved in white on a cloudy blue wash ground. In the centre a bird is shown perched on a fruit tree; in the cavetto are sprays of fruiting peach, peony, ‘lingzhi’ fungus and camellia. The rim edge is painted toffee brown and has a firing crack. A hastily written six-character Chenghua reign mark appears on the chatter-marked base, reading ‘Da Ming Chenghua nian zhi’.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The crisp shape of this dish together with its firing cracks, chatter marks, grit adhesions to the foot, dense decoration, brown-painted rim and false Chenghua mark make it a typical product of the late Ming Chongzhen period. Such dishes were copied in Japan between 1850 and 1946, though with a more precise rim, brighter blue glaze and a shallow in-turned foot to either side of which grit was applied deliberately.
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