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dish
Object Type
dish
Museum number
PDF,A.676
Description
Porcelain dish. Underglaze blue with stylised leaf sprays around sides and inside with central roundel with a white hare staring at the moon in a garden landscape, including rock, flowers and lingzhi fungus tree. Band of rocks and trees with a single bird around cavetto. There is an inscription on the base. Closely related to PDF675.
Cultures/periods
Ming dynasty
Production date
1601
(Dated)
Production place
Made in:
Jingdezhen
Materials
porcelain
Technique
underglazed
Dimensions
Diameter:
137 millimetres
Height:
27 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
Published PDF date : Ming Wanli 1573-1620
Room 95 label text: PDF A676 Blue-and-white dish with a white rabbit in a landscape This dish is decorated with a white rabbit in a landscape. The dish carries a dated mark on the base which reads萬曆辛丑 年造(Wanli xinchou nian zao ‘Made in the xinchou year of the Wanli reign [AD 1601]) in underglaze blue on the base. Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue decoration Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮 Ming dynasty, Wanli period, dated equivalent to AD 1601
PDF A676 青花白兔風景圖盤 瓷盤裝飾以白兔風景,外底署青花款“萬曆辛丑年造”(1601年)。 瓷器,青花 江西省景德鎮 明代,萬歷,紀年相當1601年
Bibliographic references
Pierson 2004 / Illustrated Catalogue of Underglaze Blue and Copper Red Decorated Porcelains in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art
(pp 69-70, no.A676)
Medley 1976 / Illustrated Catalogue of Underglaze Blue and Copper Red Decorated Porcelains
(p.49, no.A676, pl.VIII)
Riddell 1979 / Dated Chinese Antiquities 600-1650
(p.101, no.79)
Scott & Kerr 1994 / Ceramic Evolution in the Middle Ming Period
(p.33, no.64, mark p.47)
Medley 1975 / Volume 7: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art
(Monochrome pl. 169)
Pierson 2001 / Designs as Signs: Decoration and Chinese Ceramics
(p. 91, no. 93)
Location
On display
(G95/dc22/sh3)
Department
Asia
Registration number
PDF,A.676