Dish

1368-1450 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

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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Object type
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.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 45.1cm
Styles
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
Subjects depicted
Other number
Grant Brown Loan no. 11 - Previous loan number
Collection
Accession number
C.79-1954

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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