Longquan stoneware dish with rounded sides and flattened rim. Yuan dynasty, AD 1300–1368
Longquan stoneware dish with rounded sides and flattened rim. Diameter: 153 millimetres. Longquan ware龍泉窯. Longquan region, Zhejiang province 浙江省, 龍泉地區. Yuan dynasty, AD 1300–1368. On loan from Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art. Registration number: PDF.287. © Trustees of the British Museum
The dish has greenish-grey glaze, with red coloured slips. There are four fish of two different colours in the centre, and eight moulded bosses, also of two different colours, on the rim.
This dish with rounded sides and flattened rim is decorated with a celadon glaze and four sprig-moulded biscuit-fired fish of two different coloured clay floated on the glaze in the centre and with eight shell shapes in different coloured clay around the rim.
Bibliographic reference; - Medley, Margaret, Illustrated Catalogue of Celadon Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, University of London, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1977
- Pierson, Stacey, Illustrated Catalogue of Celadon Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, University of London, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1997