dish
- Museum number
- PDF.240
- Description
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Longquan porcelain dish with flattened mouth rim, and thick inclined foot rim. The dish has a grey-green glaze. There is a lotus spray in the centre surrounded by a scroll, and four unglazed fish around the interior.
- Production date
- 1403-1435
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 318 millimetres
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Height: 89 millimetres
- Curator's comments
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Published PDF date : Ming 15th century
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Room 95 label text:
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Dish with four fishes
Yuan potters used a new technique to decorate this Longquan dish, creating a design with contrasting orangey-red unglazed (biscuit-fired) areas against rich green glaze. First, they incised aspects of the design, such as the flowers and then covered the whole dish in glaze except for a broad ring on the base, which was left to accommodate a kiln support. Next they applied designs from clay which had been rolled out thin like pastry and pressed-out using small carved moulds. This technique used to apply the four swimming fish is called sprig-moulding.
Stoneware, porcelain-type, with incised and applied biscuit-fired decoration and celadon glaze
Longquan ware龍泉窯
Longquan region, Zhejiang province 浙江省, 龍泉地區
Ming dynasty, AD 1403–35
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青釉四魚紋盤
元代龍泉窯的陶工採用了一種新的裝飾技法,將素胎紋飾貼於釉面之上,露胎素燒而成的橘紅色,與青釉釉色形成鮮明對比,即露胎貼花。具體工序是,首先在器物上裝飾部分刻花紋飾,如花卉紋,而後整器上釉,但底足有一圈無釉,以方便窯具承托。其次,將坯泥滾壓成餅形薄片,再以模具按壓出特定形狀,製作成小貼花裝飾,貼於器身。此盤上的四條魚形裝飾即為此塑貼裝飾手法製作。
炻器,属廣義瓷器,劃花,露胎貼花,青釉
龍泉窯
浙江省龍泉地區
明代,1403-1435年
- Location
- On display (G95/dc5/sh2)
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- PDF.240