dish
- Museum number
- PDF,A.607
- Description
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Porcelain dish decorated in underglaze blue with five-clawed dragon and clouds roundel and incised waves. Parallel blue lines around inner and outer rim. There is an inscription on the base. Pair with A606.
- Production date
- 1426-1435
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 190 millimetres
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Height: 45 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Published PDF date : Ming Xuande 1426-1435
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Room 95 label text:
PDF A607
Dish with dragons
This saucer-dish is painted in underglaze blue with five-clawed dragons and clouds against an incised background of waves framed by a double ring. Outside similar dragons, clouds and evenly-spaced stylised rocks are shown against incised waves. Although this dragon pattern was reproduced throughout the later Ming and Qing dynasties on imperial porcelain, its quality was never matched. Generally details such as the ground of finely incised waves were omitted later. Potting in the Qing was more precise. Archaeologists have unearthed similar Xuande dishes at Zhushan at Jingdezhen.
Porcelain with incised and underglaze cobalt-blue decoration
Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮
Ming dynasty, Xuande mark and period, AD 1426–35
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PDF A607
龍紋盤
這件瓷盤內部雙圈內繪青花五爪雲龍紋,背景為劃花波濤紋。外部劃花波濤紋底上,繪以類似的龍紋、雲紋和等距分布的格式化巖石。盡管這種龍紋設計在宣德之后的明代以及清代御瓷上一直有仿製,卻重未達到類似的質量。一般而言,細節如精細劃花波濤紋底等在后期都省略了。清代的器形作工更為精準。考古學家在景德鎮珠山曾出土類似的宣德瓷。
瓷器,劃花,青花
江西省景德鎮
明代,宣德,宣德款,1426-1435年
- Location
- On display (G95/dc59/s3)
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- PDF,A.607