Dish
mid 14th century (made)
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After 1300, Chinese potters at Jingdezhen began to decorate the local white porcelain in cobalt blue. They perfected the painting technique, so that the blue did not run during firing. Smaller items have Chinese shapes and may have been made for the home market. But large dishes such as this one were made for export back to the Middle East, where the cobalt for the blue had come from.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Porcelain painted in underglaze blue |
| Brief description | Dish, porcelain painted in underglaze blue with peafowls and plants, China, Yuan dynasty, mid 14th century |
| Physical description | Porcelain dish, with shallow, rounded cavetto and flat, canted rim; v-shaped footring and flat base. Painted in underglaze blue on the inside with two peafowls among rocks, with growing bamboo, lingzhi fungus, floral sprays, grapevines and two insects; round the cavetto is a band of scrolling lotus and on the rim a border of lozenge diaper-work. A similar lotus scroll band encircles the outside. Rich violet-toned cobalt turning to black where thickly applied, lustrous glaze of a bluish-green tinge where thick. The exposed body on foot and base turning to orange-buff with brown speckling. |
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| Gallery label | Dish with peacock and grape vines
China, Jingdezhen, Yuan dynasty, about 1350
Museum no. C.24-1968(2009) |
| Credit line | Purchased with Art Fund support |
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| Summary | After 1300, Chinese potters at Jingdezhen began to decorate the local white porcelain in cobalt blue. They perfected the painting technique, so that the blue did not run during firing. Smaller items have Chinese shapes and may have been made for the home market. But large dishes such as this one were made for export back to the Middle East, where the cobalt for the blue had come from. |
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| Accession number | C.24-1968 |
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| Record created | January 6, 2009 |
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