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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

1573-1620 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Dish of porcelain, saucer-shaped, wavy edge. In the middle, a ten-lobed panel containing a grasshopper with flowers on a rock, reserved on a ground of swastika diaper. On the border, which is moulded in ten panels, containing alternately fruits and emblems. Underneath the rim, roughly drawn emblems in panels.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt blue
Brief description
Dish, porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt blue; China (Jingdezhen), Ming dynasty, Wanli period (1573-1620)
Physical description
Dish of porcelain, saucer-shaped, wavy edge. In the middle, a ten-lobed panel containing a grasshopper with flowers on a rock, reserved on a ground of swastika diaper. On the border, which is moulded in ten panels, containing alternately fruits and emblems. Underneath the rim, roughly drawn emblems in panels.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 20.3cm
Styles
Credit line
Salting Bequest
Object history
Bequeathed by Mr. George Salting, accessioned in 1910. This acquisition information reflects that found in the Asia Department registers, as part of a 2022 provenance research project.
Subjects depicted
Other number
Loan no. 486
Collection
Accession number
C.576-1910

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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