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dish

• Object type

  • dish

• Museum number

  PDF,A.740

• Description

  Porcelain dish painted with iron brown enamel against a white ground. Inside, incised single spray of gardenia in the centre with four flower and fruit sprays in the cavetto, including grapevine, lotus, pomegranate and persimmon. Outside incised with band of scrolling gardenia sprays. There is a mark on the base.

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• Culture/period

  • Ming dynasty
  • Hongzhi

• Date

  • 1488-1505

• Production place

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

• Materials

  • porcelain

• Technique

  • painted
  • incised
  • glazed

• Dimensions

  • Height: 55 millimetres
  • Diameter: 260 millimetres

• Inscriptions

  • • Inscription Type

      reign mark

    • Inscription Position

      on base

    • Inscription Language

      Chinese

    • Inscription Content

      大明弘治年製

    • Inscription Transliteration

      Da Ming Hongzhi nian zhi

    • Inscription Translation

      Made in the Ming dynasty, Hongzhi reign

• Curator's comments

  Published PDF date : Ming Hongzhi 1488-1505Room 95 label text:

  PDF A740

  Dish with fruiting and flowering branches

  
  Potters painted flowering gardenia in the centre. There are four flower and fruit sprays in the cavetto, including grapevine, lotus, pomegranate and persimmon. Outside it is incised with a band of scrolling gardenia. The combination of iron-brown on a white ground is unusual but was a technique invented in the early fifteenth century. The base has a six-character underglaze cobalt-blue Hongzhi reign mark.

  
  Porcelain with incised decoration, underglaze cobalt-blue mark and overglaze iron- brown
  Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮
  Ming dynasty, Hongzhi mark and period, AD 1488–1505

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• Bibliography

  • Medley 1975 Colour pl. 58 and p. 312 (Mark p. 277)
  • Medley 1978 p.19, no.27
  • Feng 2006 p.58, no.A740
  • Feng 2006a pp 64-65, no. 23

• Location

  On display: G95/dc25/sh2

• Acquisition name

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

• Department

  Asia

• Registration number

  PDF,A.740