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PDF.255
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Description
Longquan porcelain dish with a wide flat base and a narrow flattened rim. The dish has thick grey-green glaze. There is a dragon surrounded by clouds chasing a flaming pearl in biscuit relief in the centre, seventeen prunus florets in biscuit relief around the rim, and an incised wave pattern around the well.
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Culture/period
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Date
- 14thC
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Production place
- Made in: Longquan (area)
- (Asia,China,Zhejiang (province),Longquan Area)
- Made in: Longquan (area)
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Materials
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Ware
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Technique
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Dimensions
- Height: 83 millimetres
- Diameter: 433 millimetres
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Curator's comments
Published PDF date : Yuan 14th centuryRoom 95 label text:
PDF 255
Charger with biscuit-fired dragon
Yuan potters used a new technique to decorate this Longquan dish, creating a design with contrasting orangey-red unglazed (biscuit-fired) areas against rich green glaze. First, they incised aspects of the design, such as the waves in the well, and then covered the whole dish in glaze except for a broad ring on the base, which was left to accommodate a kiln support. Next they applied designs from clay which had been rolled out thin like pastry and pressed-out using small carved moulds. This technique used to apply the dragon, flaming pearl and clouds in the centre, and prunus flowers around the rim, is called sprig-moulding.
Stoneware, porcelain-type, with incised and applied biscuit-fired decoration and celadon glaze
Longquan ware龍泉窯
Longquan region, Zhejiang province 浙江省,龍泉地區
Yuan dynasty, about AD 1300–1368PDF 255青釉露胎貼花龍紋盤
元代龍泉窯的陶工採用了一種新的裝飾技法,將素胎紋飾貼於釉面之上,露胎素燒而成的橘紅色,與青釉釉色形成鮮明對比,即露胎貼花。具體工序是,首先在器物上裝飾部分刻花紋飾,如內壁的波浪紋;而後上釉,但底足有一圈無釉,以方便窯具承托。其次,將坯泥滾壓成餅形薄片,再以模具按壓出特定形狀,製作成小貼花裝飾,貼於器身。此盤底心的龍紋、寶珠紋、雲紋,以及近口沿處的梅花紋,都使用了露胎貼花裝飾技法。
炻器,属廣義瓷器,劃花,露胎素燒貼花,青釉
龍泉窯
浙江省龍泉地區
元代,約1300-1368年 -
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Location
On display: G95/dc52/s6
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Acquisition name
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Acquisition notes
R. L. Hobson, 1934 records:'Cf. Zimmermann, "Meisterwerke der Turkischen Museen zu Konstantinopel", Vol 2. Plate 19.'
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Department
Asia
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Registration number
PDF.255
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