Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1522-1566
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, painted,
Subjects:dragon
Dimensions:Diameter: 16 centimetres Height: 5.20 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain tazza painted in red and black enamel on a cafe au lait ground. This tazza has a shallow bowl with rounded sides and a slightly depressed centre. Its stand has been ground down to a height of just 0.6 cm. It is covered inside and out with a cafe au lait glaze and is further painted in red enamel inside with a stylized ‘shou’ character [longevity] in a double ring and with double red lines around the inner and outer edges of the rim. Outside in red enamel one sinewy dragon is shown turning back to face the other with clouds in between. Outlines of these images and details such as the dragons scales, eyes and horns are highlighted with black enamel. On the stem are traces of cloud decoration which have been ground away. On the base is a faded six-character reign mark in overglaze red.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Jiajing era dishes are also known with green and black enamel on a cafe au lait ground. For example, a bowl, painted with a phoenix and dragon outside and with cranes and pine trees inside, is in the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka. That dish is much more finely potted than the present tazza and the dragon is much less fleshy, which has prompted some scholars to suggest the tazza is a Post-Qing Republican era fake made between 1911 and 1929.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, painted,
Subjects:dragon
Dimensions:Diameter: 16 centimetres Height: 5.20 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain tazza painted in red and black enamel on a cafe au lait ground. This tazza has a shallow bowl with rounded sides and a slightly depressed centre. Its stand has been ground down to a height of just 0.6 cm. It is covered inside and out with a cafe au lait glaze and is further painted in red enamel inside with a stylized ‘shou’ character [longevity] in a double ring and with double red lines around the inner and outer edges of the rim. Outside in red enamel one sinewy dragon is shown turning back to face the other with clouds in between. Outlines of these images and details such as the dragons scales, eyes and horns are highlighted with black enamel. On the stem are traces of cloud decoration which have been ground away. On the base is a faded six-character reign mark in overglaze red.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Jiajing era dishes are also known with green and black enamel on a cafe au lait ground. For example, a bowl, painted with a phoenix and dragon outside and with cranes and pine trees inside, is in the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka. That dish is much more finely potted than the present tazza and the dragon is much less fleshy, which has prompted some scholars to suggest the tazza is a Post-Qing Republican era fake made between 1911 and 1929.
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