dish
- Museum number
- PDF,C.648
- Description
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Large Zhangzhou Export Ware porcelain dish of Swatow type, with bracketed rim. Underglaze blue inside with a central roundel featuring ducks and waterfowl in a pond with aquatic plants and a grassy shoreline. Ogival panels around the cavetto alternating with egrets or lotus plants.
- Production date
- 16thC-17thC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 380 millimetres
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Height: 78 millimetres
- Curator's comments
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Published PDF date : Ming early 17th century
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Room 95 label text:
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Dish with a riverscape
Collectors and scholars called this type of ware ‘Swatow’ after an old Dutch transliteration of Shantou, a port in northern Guangong province, mistakenly believed to have been the port from which they were shipped. Merchants traded them to countries in Southeast Asia such as Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia as well as to Japan and Holland. They are characterised by coarse sandy bases. The designs are all rendered in free and spontaneous brushstrokes. This dish is painted with a riverscape in the centre with water plants and birds.
Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue decoration
Zhangzhou (‘Swatow’) ware
Pinghe county, Zhangzhou prefecture, Fujian province, 福建省, 漳州, 平和縣
Ming dynasty, about AD1573–1620
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江景圖盤
收藏家和學者們將此類器物稱為“汕頭器”(Swatow),源于老荷蘭語音譯的“汕頭”一詞。汕頭為廣東省北部的一個港口,被誤認為是這些器物起運的港口。商人們將之銷往東南亞國家,諸如印尼、菲律賓和馬來西亞,同時也行銷日本和荷蘭。器物以粗砂底為特徵。紋飾皆筆法自然自由揮灑。此盤盤心繪有江景,有水草及禽鳥。
瓷器,青花
漳州(汕頭)器
福建省漳州平和縣
明代,約1573-1620年
- Location
- On display (G95/dc29/sh9)
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- PDF,C.648