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Object Type: dish
Museum number: PDF,A.731
Description: Porcelain dish. Decorated in wucai style with underglaze blue and overglaze yellow, red, green, and black enamels. Golden carp design on inside centre, with aquatic plants of various colours. Outside painted with four fish in water weeds and clover ferns. There is a mark on the base. Pair with A730.
Cultures/periods: Ming dynasty; Jiajing
Production date: 1522-1566
Production place: Made in: Jingdezhen
Materials: porcelain
Technique: underglazed; wucai
Dimensions: Diameter: 172 millimetres; Height: 35 millimetres
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Curator's comments: Published PDF date : Ming Jiajing 1522-1566; Room 95 label text: PDF A731 Wucai dish with fish 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 Jiajing reign mark. Chinese people regard paired fish as a rebus (visual pun) for abundance as the words for both fish 魚 and abundance 餘, are pronounced yu. Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue and overglaze wucai enamels Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province江西省, 景德鎮 Ming dynasty, Jiajing mark and period, AD 1522–1566; PDF A731 五彩魚紋盤陶工用二次燒成的五彩技術裝飾此盤，包括第一次的釉下青花及第二次的釉上紅、黃、綠彩。中國人將成對的魚作為象征富足的符號，因“魚”與“餘”諧音。瓷器，青花，釉上五彩江西省景德鎮明代，嘉靖，嘉靖款，1522-1566年
Bibliographic references: Feng 2006 / Illustrated Catalogue of Ming and Ming Style Polychrome Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.56, no.A731); Medley 1978 / Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Polychrome Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.23, no.48, pl.V); Pierson 2002 / Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art: A Guide to the Collection (p.73, no.63); Scott 1989b / Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art: A Guide to the Collection (p.87, no.81); Scott & Kerr 1994 / Ceramic Evolution in the Middle Ming Period (p.20, no.17); Pierson 2001 / Designs as Signs: Decoration and Chinese Ceramics (p.17, no.7)
Location: On display (G95/dc27/sh6)
Department: Asia
Registration number: PDF,A.731

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