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dish

• Object type

  • dish

• Museum number

  PDF.556

• Description

  Porcelain dish with rounded sides. The dish has dark copper red glaze, white at the rim and foot-ring. There is a mark on the base.

• Culture/period

  • Xuande
  • Ming dynasty

• Date

  • 1426-1435

• Production place

  • Made in: Jingdezhen
  • (Asia,China,Jiangxi (province),Jingdezhen)

• Materials

  • porcelain

• Technique

  • underglazed

• Dimensions

  • Height: 44 millimetres
  • Diameter: 206 millimetres

• Inscriptions

  • • Inscription Type

      reign mark

    • Inscription Position

      on base

    • Inscription Language

      Chinese

    • Inscription Content

      大明宣德年製

    • Inscription Transliteration

      Da Ming Xuande nian zhi

    • Inscription Translation

      Made in the Ming dynasty, Xuande reign

• Curator's comments

  Published PDF date : Ming 15th centuryRoom 95 label text:

  PDF 556

  Dish with copper-red glaze

  
  ‘Sacrificial’, fresh or deep red monochrome-glazed porcelain of the Yongle and Xuande era represents the peak of technical achievement at Jingdezhen. As vessels ordered for ritual use by the early fifteenth century Ming emperors, they enjoy a status above that of other porcelains. The glaze has ‘crept’ at the rim of the dish to reveal the pure whiteness of the porcelain body. The glassy glaze is covered in tiny pin prick holes like skin pores and the colour possesses an incredible powdery depth, yielding layer upon layer of strong red shades of colour. The base carries an incised Xuande reign mark.

  
  Porcelain with incised mark, transparent and copper-red glazes
  Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province江西省, 景德鎮
  Ming dynasty, Xuande mark and period, AD1426–35

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• Bibliography

  • Medley 1973 p.20, no.556
  • Scott 1989 p.21, no.556

• Location

  On display: G95/dc48/sh4

• Acquisition name

  • On loan from: Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art

• Department

  Asia

• Registration number

  PDF.556