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

Dish

1621-1627 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Hexagonal dish with concave cuts at the angles, narrow sloping rim, steep sides and flat centre. Hollow footrim with vertical inside wall, and "chatter-marks" on base. Round the rim and sides, panels in underglaze blue, each alternate panel containing a squatting figure in a landscape; in the panels between lobed cartouches reserved on a diaper ground in underglaze bleu and containing each a flower in red and green leaves outlined in black. In the bottom of the dish, a red crane amongst red water-lilies and green leaves outlined in black.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted in underglaze blue and overglaze enamels
Brief description
Dish, porcelain painted in underglaze blue and overglaze enamels; China (Jingdezhen), Ming dynasty, Tianqi period (1621-27)
Physical description
Hexagonal dish with concave cuts at the angles, narrow sloping rim, steep sides and flat centre. Hollow footrim with vertical inside wall, and "chatter-marks" on base. Round the rim and sides, panels in underglaze blue, each alternate panel containing a squatting figure in a landscape; in the panels between lobed cartouches reserved on a diaper ground in underglaze bleu and containing each a flower in red and green leaves outlined in black. In the bottom of the dish, a red crane amongst red water-lilies and green leaves outlined in black.
Dimensions
  • Width: 14.2cm
Styles
Marks and inscriptions
'fu' within a circle, in underglaze blue (Seal character mark)
Translation
happiness
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.25-1955

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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