Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1620-1627 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:the three friends of winter
Dimensions:Diameter: 13 centimetres Height: 3 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with underglaze blue decoration. This saucer dish has shallow rounded sides and a tapering foot. The glaze does not fit the dish perfectly. It is painted inside with a medallion containing a ‘lingzhi’ fungus spray and emerging from the rim are the Three Friends of Winter: prunus, bamboo and pine. The base is marked with an apocryphal mark of four characters in a tight script which read: ‘Longqing nian zhi’ [Made in the Longqing reign].
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Wang Qingzheng illustrates a dish of this type with a hare in place of the fungus and with a Xuande mark on the base.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:the three friends of winter
Dimensions:Diameter: 13 centimetres Height: 3 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with underglaze blue decoration. This saucer dish has shallow rounded sides and a tapering foot. The glaze does not fit the dish perfectly. It is painted inside with a medallion containing a ‘lingzhi’ fungus spray and emerging from the rim are the Three Friends of Winter: prunus, bamboo and pine. The base is marked with an apocryphal mark of four characters in a tight script which read: ‘Longqing nian zhi’ [Made in the Longqing reign].
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Wang Qingzheng illustrates a dish of this type with a hare in place of the fungus and with a Xuande mark on the base.
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