dish
- Museum number
- Franks.211.+
- Description
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Porcelain dish with incised and green enamel decoration on a yellow ground. This dish has rounded sides and a tapering foot. It is plain inside but outside is incised with two dragons shown in profile, chasing after flaming pearls among 'ruyi' cloud scrolls, overglazed in mint-green enamel on a mottled golden-yellow ground. The base carries a four-character Zhengde reign mark within a double circle in underglaze blue and has a drilled owner's mark of three dots arranged in triangular formation over the Chinese mark. Such drilled marks indicate that the dish was once owned by an Indian or Near Eastern collector.
- Production date
- 1506-1521
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 20.20 centimetres
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Height: 4 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Harrison-Hall 2001:
This combination of overglaze yellow and green enamel first occurs in the Yongle period (1403-24) at the imperial kilns in Jingdezhen. For example, a dish decorated with green dragons and clouds on a yellow ground was excavated at Zhushan in 1984 from the Yongle strata there.
A slightly smaller dish of this type, also plain inside, is in the Shanghai Museum.
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- Franks.211.+