Dish

Ceramics
China

Subject/design:

Floral design

Materials:

Porcelain

Technique:

Underglaze cobalt blue

Date:

Ming dynasty (1368-1644), reign of Yongle 永樂 (1402-1424)

Size:

Diam. 40,8 cm

Place of origin:

China, Jiangxi, imperial kilns of Jingdezhen

Description:

With rounded cavetto and flat rim thickened at the edge. Painted inside in the centre is a scrolling design bearing blooms of hibiscus, peony, and camellia, and round the cavetto is a continuous floral scroll with eleven blooms, included among which are lotus, chrysanthemum, camellia and peony; round the rim is a border of breaking waves. The outside is encircled by another floral scroll band with eleven blooms, differently arranged.

Inventory number:

CB CC 1946 140

Copyright:

Fondation Baur

Photographer:

Marian Gérard