dish
- Museum number
- PDF.176
- Description
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Ding porcelain dish, with a raised edge. Creamy white. There are two fish among waves carved in centre.
- Production date
- 11thC-12thC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 183 millimetres
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Height: 26 millimetres
- Curator's comments
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Published PDF date : 12th or early 13thC
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Room 95 label text:
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Dish with incised fish
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.
Stoneware with carved and combed decoration, and transparent glaze
Ding ware 定窯
Quyang county, Hebei province 河北省, 曲陽縣
Northern Song or Jin dynasty, about AD 1050–1234
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白釉刻劃花雙魚紋盤
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。
炻器,刻劃及篦劃花,透明釉
定窯
河北省曲陽縣
北宋或金代,約1050-1234年
- Location
- On display (G95/dc10/sh3)
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- PDF.176