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Object Type: dish
Museum number: PDF.750
Description: Porcelain dish with rounded sides, and everted rim and a low, wide footring. There is a scene depicting the 'Dragon Boat Festival' with three boats in waves with water plants in wucai-style underglaze blue and overglaze enamel in the centre of the interior, floral sprays in the cavetto, and a snake, a toad, a lizard, a centipede and a scorpion (considered to be the Five Poisonous Creatures) and plants on the exterior. There is a mark on the base.in underglaze blue.
Cultures/periods: Ming dynasty; Wanli
Production date: 1573-1620
Production place: Made in: Jingdezhen
Materials: porcelain
Technique: wucai; underglazed
Dimensions: Diameter: 207 millimetres; Height: 38 millimetres
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Curator's comments: Published PDF date : Ming Wanli 1573-1620; Room 95 label text: PDF 750 Wucai dish with a scene depicting the Dragon Boat Festival Potters decorated this dish in a twice-fired technique called 五彩 (wucai ‘five colours’) composed of underglaze blue and overglaze red, yellow, and green. The base carries an underglaze blue Wanli reign mark. The Dragon Boat Festival is an annual event on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. It is also painted with the Five Poisonous Creatures: a snake, a toad, a lizard, a centipede and a scorpion. Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue and overglaze wucai enamels Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province江西省, 景德鎮 Ming dynasty, Wanli mark and period, AD 1573–1620; PDF 750 五彩端午圖盤此五彩盤兩次燒成，包括釉下青花及釉上紅、黃及綠彩。器底署青花萬曆年款。端午節為每年農曆的五月初五日。此盤也繪製了“五毒圖”，即蛇、蟾蜍、壁虎、蜈蚣和蠍子。瓷器，青花，釉上五彩江西省景德鎮明代，萬曆，萬曆款，1573-1620年
Bibliographic references: Feng 2006 / Illustrated Catalogue of Ming and Ming Style Polychrome Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (pp 32-33, no.750); Medley 1978 / Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Polychrome Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.33, no.91, pl.IX); Scott 1989b / Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art: A Guide to the Collection (p.87, no.82); Scott & Kerr 1994 / Ceramic Evolution in the Middle Ming Period (p.22, no.25); Medley 1975 / Volume 7: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (Colour pl. 70 and p. 314); Pierson 2001 / Designs as Signs: Decoration and Chinese Ceramics (p. 62, no. 58); Feng 2006a / Ming Colours Polychrome Porcelain from Jingdezhen (pp 90-91, no. 36)
Location: On display (G95/dc27/sh7)
Department: Asia
Registration number: PDF.750

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