Dish with pleated rim and impressed reclining deer design, Ding ware, Jin dynasty, 13th century

Dish with pleated rim and impressed reclining deer design, Ding ware, Jin dynasty, 13th century

• Image Number: K1B003034N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Jin dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  The plate is in the shape of multi petals chrysanthemum, with a wide folding edge, shallow wall, flat bottom, and inlaid with copper clasps. Moulded and printed, with chrysanthemum petal pattern printed on the folding edge of the inner lip, cloud pattern on the inner wall, four season flowers on the inner bottom, and a crouching deer in the middle. The whole vessel is covered with white glaze, and the glaze color is slightly yellow. Ding Kiln is located in Jianci Village and Yanshan Village, Quyang County, Hebei Province. It is the most famous white porcelain kiln in the north during the Song and Yuan Dynasties.