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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Dish

1450-1550 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Dish, saucer-shaped with rounded sides rising at the rim, and small glazed, recessed base; matt glaze. Painted with a bird perched on a branch of a shrub with feathery stems, in a double ring, another below the lip; and outside with a dot border and band of pointed leaves.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt blue
Brief description
Dish, porcelain painted in underglaze blue; China (Jingdezhen), Ming dynasty, 1450-1550
Physical description
Dish, saucer-shaped with rounded sides rising at the rim, and small glazed, recessed base; matt glaze. Painted with a bird perched on a branch of a shrub with feathery stems, in a double ring, another below the lip; and outside with a dot border and band of pointed leaves.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 10.3cm
Styles
Credit line
Given by Sir John Addis KCMG
Object history
The group of objects (FE.3 to 105-1975) were all acquired by Sir John Addis during his stay in Manila as British Ambassador, ca. 1965-70, and are purportedly from excavations there. See papers published at the Manila Trade Pottery Seminiar, 1968, here noted; also Locsin, L & C, Oriental Ceramics discovered in the Philippines, Rutland & Tokyo 1968; and Addis, J. M. Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, 1967-69 London : The Society, pp. 17-36.
Production
Register
Subject depicted
Bibliographic references
  • W. Sorsby Ltd., Exhibition Catalogue, 1974, No. 93.
  • Kerr, Rose and Luisa E. Mengoni Chinese Export Ceramics London: V&A Publishing, 2011, p.116, pl.167
Collection
Accession number
FE.24-1975

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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