dish
- Museum number
- PDF,A.221
- Description
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Longquan ware porcelain dish with rim pierced with two pairs of holes mounted with copper alloy loop handles in floret-shaped fittings. The dish has a pale grey body and transparent greyish-green glaze. There are two fish in applied relief in the centre of the interior, and overlapping lotus petals carved on the exterior.
- Production date
- 13thC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 218 millimetres
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Height: 54 millimetres
- Curator's comments
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Published PDF date : Southern Song 13thC
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Room 95 label text:
PDF A221
Dish with moulded fish
This dish has two moulded fish applied beneath the celadon glaze. 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. The dish was originally fired with two holes on each side of the rim – presumably for metal handles. The original thirteenth century handles are lost. These handles were fitted in Japan in the Meiji period (AD1868–1912).
Stoneware, porcelain-type, carved and with applied moulded decoration with celadon glaze and metal mounts
Longquan ware龍泉窯
Longquan region, Zhejiang province 浙江省, 龍泉地區
Southern Song to Yuan dynasty, AD 1200–1300
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PDF A221
貼花魚紋盤
此盤青釉下裝飾模印貼花雙魚圖案。中國人將成對的魚視作富足的象徵,因“魚”與“餘”諧音。此盤口沿兩側各有兩洞,燒窯前所穿,推測是用來安裝金屬提手。十三世紀的原提手已佚,現在的提手安裝於日本明治時期(1868-1912年)。
炻器,屬廣義瓷器,刻花,模印貼花,青釉,鑲金屬口和提手
龍泉窯
浙江省龍泉地區(今龍泉市)
南宋或元代,約1200-1300年
- Location
- On display (G95/dc3/sh1)
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- PDF,A.221