dish
- Museum number
- PDF.715
- Description
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Zhangzhou Export ware porcelain dish with rounded sides and everted rim. Swatow-type. There are two pheasant-like birds with landscape in turquoise, black, red and green enamels in the centre of the interior, and fish dragons chasing flaming pearls in turquoise, black and red enamels in the cavetto.
- Production date
- 1573-1620
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 393 millimetres
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Height: 97 millimetres
- Curator's comments
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Published PDF date : Ming Wanli (1573-1620) late 16th century
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Room 95 label text:
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Dish with birds and fish-dragons
Collectors and scholars called this type of ware ‘Swatow’ after an old Dutch transliteration of Shantou, a port in northern Guangong province, mistakenly believed to have been the port from which they were shipped. Merchants traded them to countries in Southeast Asia such as Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia as well as to Japan and Holland. They are characterised by coarse sandy bases. The designs are all rendered in free and spontaneous brushstrokes.
Porcelain with polychrome overglaze enamels
Zhangzhou (‘Swatow’) ware
Pinghe county, Zhangzhou prefecture, Fujian province, 福建省, 漳州, 平和縣
Ming dynasty, about AD1573–1620
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魚龍鳥紋盤
藏家及學者將此類器物稱為“汕頭器”(Swatow),源于古荷蘭語音譯的“汕頭”一詞。汕頭為廣東省北部的一個港口,被誤認為是這些器物起運的港口。商人們將之銷往東南亞國家,諸如印尼、菲律賓和馬來西亞,同時也行銷日本和荷蘭。器物以粗砂底為特徵。紋飾皆為自由揮灑,筆法自然。
瓷器,釉上五彩
漳州(汕頭)器
福建省漳州平和縣
明代,約1573-1620年
- Location
- On display (G95/dc29/sh1)
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- PDF.715