dish
- Museum number
- PDF,B.713
- Description
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Large Zhangzhou export ware porcelain dish. Decorated in blue, white and iron brown with dragons and flower sprays in the centre, and pairs of cartouches around the rim under the transparent blue glaze. Base roughly glazed.
- Production date
- 1573-1620
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 381 millimetres
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Height: 99 millimetres
- Curator's comments
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Published PDF date : Ming late 16th or early 17th century
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Room 95 label text:
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Dish with dragons and flowers
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.
Porcelain with cobalt-blue glaze and underglaze painting
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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花卉龍紋盤
收藏家和學者們將此類器物稱為“汕頭器”(Swatow),源於老荷蘭語音譯的“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。
瓷器,鈷藍釉,釉下彩繪
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,B.713