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• Object type

  • dish

• Museum number

  PDF.255

• 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

  • Yuan dynasty

• Date

  • 14thC

• Production place

  • Made in: Longquan (area)
  • (Asia,China,Zhejiang (province),Longquan Area)

• Materials

  • porcelain

• Ware

  • Longquan Ware

• Technique

  • incised
  • glazed

• Dimensions

  • Height: 83 millimetres
  • Diameter: 433 millimetres

• Curator's comments

  Published PDF date : Yuan 14th centuryRoom 95 label text:

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  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 1300–1368

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• Bibliography

  • Medley 1975 Colour pl. 33 and p. 309
  • Hobson 1934 p. 54, pl. LIII
  • Pierson 1997 p.40, no.255
  • Pierson 2002 p.56, no.34
  • Scott 1989b p.61, no.49
  • Medley 1974 p.7, no.255
  • Medley 1977 pp 28-29, no.83
  • Oriental Ceramic Society 1971 pp 92-93, no.117

• Location

  On display: G95/dc52/s6

• Acquisition name

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

• Acquisition notes

  R. L. Hobson, 1934 records:'Cf. Zimmermann, "Meisterwerke der Turkischen Museen zu Konstantinopel", Vol 2. Plate 19.'

• Department

  Asia

• Registration number

  PDF.255