Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1643 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:plant,flower
Dimensions:Diameter: 10.50 centimetres Height: 7.50 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain ‘zhadou’ with underglaze blue decoration. This ‘zhadou’ has a rounded body and trumpeting neck and stands on a low foot ring. Outside it is decorated with a composite flower scroll of chrysanthemums and hollyhocks framed between single blue lines. Above is a border of alternating small and large triangles and the rim and foot are outlined with double blue lines. The inside and the base are glazed but otherwise undecorated.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Such small ‘zhadou’ were used as table-top slops jars rather than as floor spittoons. When making tea, the Chinese first rinse cups and teapot in boiling water to cleanse and warm them. Such water would be jettisoned into a ‘zhadou’ along with tea dregs and other waste. It was one of seven ‘zhadou’ recovered from the Hatcher wreck (see BM 1984.0303.11a and b). As there were so few of them on board, we can assume that they were carried on the ship either as novelties or as market testers, or were intended for sale to Chinese abroad. Many porcelains recovered from the wreck were made in traditional domestic Chinese shapes rather than as copies of European vessels.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:plant,flower
Dimensions:Diameter: 10.50 centimetres Height: 7.50 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain ‘zhadou’ with underglaze blue decoration. This ‘zhadou’ has a rounded body and trumpeting neck and stands on a low foot ring. Outside it is decorated with a composite flower scroll of chrysanthemums and hollyhocks framed between single blue lines. Above is a border of alternating small and large triangles and the rim and foot are outlined with double blue lines. The inside and the base are glazed but otherwise undecorated.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Such small ‘zhadou’ were used as table-top slops jars rather than as floor spittoons. When making tea, the Chinese first rinse cups and teapot in boiling water to cleanse and warm them. Such water would be jettisoned into a ‘zhadou’ along with tea dregs and other waste. It was one of seven ‘zhadou’ recovered from the Hatcher wreck (see BM 1984.0303.11a and b). As there were so few of them on board, we can assume that they were carried on the ship either as novelties or as market testers, or were intended for sale to Chinese abroad. Many porcelains recovered from the wreck were made in traditional domestic Chinese shapes rather than as copies of European vessels.
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