Dish
1368-1450 (made)
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Longquan ware large dish with flat base (slightly convex) and rounded sides, and rather heavy foot vertically cut on the inside. Thick stoneware covered with a soft mossy-green celadon glaze which also covers the underside, with the exception of a broad ring on the base burnt red in the firing. The face of the dish is decorated with an all-over diamond pattern incised under the glaze, and there is a leafy peony scroll round the side.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Stoneware with incised decoration under celadon glaze |
| Brief description | Longquan ware. Dish, stoneware with incised decoration under celadon glaze; China (Zhejiang province), Ming dynasty |
| Physical description | Longquan ware large dish with flat base (slightly convex) and rounded sides, and rather heavy foot vertically cut on the inside. Thick stoneware covered with a soft mossy-green celadon glaze which also covers the underside, with the exception of a broad ring on the base burnt red in the firing. The face of the dish is decorated with an all-over diamond pattern incised under the glaze, and there is a leafy peony scroll round the side. |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by G. E. R. Grant Brown, Esq. |
| Object history | Stated to have been obtained from Mawton on the Tenasserim River, Mergui District, Lower Burma in 1916. |
| Production | label |
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| Other number | Grant Brown Loan no. 11 - Previous loan number |
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| Accession number | C.79-1954 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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