dish
- Museum number
- PDF.191
- Description
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Ding porcelain dish. Creamy white. There are two fish amongst waves on the interior.
- Production date
- 960-1234
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 122 millimetres
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Height: 31 millimetres
- Curator's comments
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Published PDF date : Northern Song 11thC-12thC
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Room 95 label text:
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Dish with fish among waves
Potters incised a design of two fish among waves in the centre of this dish. Chinese people regard paired fish as a rebus (visual pun) for abundance as the words for both fish 魚 and abundance 餘, are pronounced yu. This design was also used at Jingdezhen. Craftsmen used sheet copper and occasionally gold or silver, cut to size and heated to fit the rims to hide this flaw. Historical accounts suggest that dressing the rim with metal actually enhanced the status of the clay vessel.
Stoneware with carved and combed decoration, transparent glaze and copper rim mount
Ding ware 定窯
Quyang county, Hebei province 河北省,曲陽縣
Northern Song or Jin dynasty, about AD 960–1234
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白釉雙魚波濤紋盤
此器器心刻劃雙魚,徜徉于波濤之中。中國人將雙魚視作富足的象徵,因“魚”與“餘”諧音。這種紋飾在景德鎮也有燒造。工匠們以銅,偶爾也使用金或銀包鑲口沿來掩飾這一缺陷。史料記載表明,以金屬包鑲口沿事實上提高了黏土燒成品的地位。
炻器,刻劃及篦劃花,透明釉,鑲銅口
定窯
河北省曲陽縣
北宋或金代,960-1234年
- Location
- On display (G95/dc10/sh6)
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- PDF.191