dish
- Museum number
- PDF.685
- Description
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Porcelain dish with flat mouth rim. There is a band of waves in underglaze cobalt blue on the rim, scrolling flowers and leaves in the cavetto and three bunches of grapes, vines and leaves in the centre.
- Production date
- 1403-1424
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 375 millimetres
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Height: 72 millimetres
- Curator's comments
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Published PDF date : Ming early 15th century
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Room 95 label text:
PDF 685
Large serving dish with flowers and grapes
Potters working at Jingdezhen used a blue-generating cobalt pigment imported from the Middle East or Central Asia at this time. It diffuses in patches through the transparent glaze and after cooling appears black where it has burnt through the glaze and pale blue where it is thin. Serving dishes of this type were exported to Southeast Asia, India and the Middle East. These dishes were more suited to foreign dining than Chinese cuisine, which requires a variety of smaller bowls and containers. This example is decorated with a grapevine design in the centre.
Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue decoration
Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮
Ming dynasty, Yongle reign, AD1403–1424
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PDF 685
花卉葡萄紋大餐盤
這一時期景德鎮的陶工們所使用的鈷青料為中東或中亞所進口。由於鈷青料成片擴散到透明釉,經燒造並冷卻後,局部的鈷青料和釉一起燒成黑色,青料較薄處則為灰青色。此種造型的餐盤曾外銷至東南亞、印度及中東。這類盤子更適用於外國飲食方式而非中國菜,後者需要多種小一點的碗及容器。盤心裝飾葡萄紋飾。
瓷器,青花
江西省景德鎮
明代,永樂,1403-1424年
- Location
- On display (G95/dc17/sh1)
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- PDF.685