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Object Type
Museum number: PDF,A.699
Description: Porcelain dish with low flaring sides. Underglaze blue with watery landscape in various tones of blue with rocks, trees, flying birds, a pagoda and fishermen in a boat in the centre. Three bamboo sprays around the sides. There is an inscription on the base.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1540-1600
Production place: Made in: Jingdezhen
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Diameter: 125 millimetres; Height: 17 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Published PDF date : Ming 16th century; Room 95 label text: PDF A699 Blue-and-white dish with a riverscape The base carries an apocryphal six-character Xuande mark in underglaze blue. This mark is used as an indication of quality as the design is entirely later in the Ming dynasty. Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue decoration Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮 Ming dynasty, about AD 1540–1600; PDF A699 青花河景圖盤外底署青花六字宣德寄託年款。寫此年款是要說明瓷器質量好，因為瓷盤的紋飾完全是明代后期的。瓷器，青花江西省景德鎮明代，約1540–1600年
Bibliographic references: Pierson 2004 / Illustrated Catalogue of Underglaze Blue and Copper Red Decorated Porcelains in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.74, no.A699); Medley 1976 / Illustrated Catalogue of Underglaze Blue and Copper Red Decorated Porcelains (p.53, no.A699, pl.X); Medley 1975 / Volume 7: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (Monochrome pl. 171); Pierson 2004A / Blue and White for China: Porcelain Treasures in the Percival David Collection (pp 108-109, no. 46)
Location: On display (G95/dc22/sh3)
Department: Asia
Registration number: PDF,A.699

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