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14 juillet 2012

Large serving dish with lotus bouquet. Ming dynasty, Yongle period, AD 1403–24.

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Large serving dish with lotus bouquet. Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue decoration. Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮. Ming dynasty, Yongle period, AD 1403–24. On loan from Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art. PDF A664 © Trustees of the British Museum

Height: 80 mm. Diameter: 444 mm. Large porcelain dish. Underglaze blue with band of scrolling flowers around inside and outside, with a large central roundel with a bunch of lotus flowers and leaves tied with a ribbon. Band of waves on the flattened rim. Base unglazed.

This thickly-potted large serving dish is painted in the centre with a bouquet of lotus flowers, leaves and other water plants tied with a ribbon and a band of scrolling flowers around the inner well and outside. The rim shows a border of waves and the base is unglazed. Customers from the Middle East preferred large style serving dishes such as this for communal dining rather than small bowls of different sizes, which suited Chinese cuisine. Most of the porcelains traded in the early fifteenth century are of this robust, thick-walled type possibly because they withstood the sea and overland journeys better. The lotus bouquet motif was first used in the Northern Song dynasty (AD 960–1127) in for example carved stone evidenced by the twin towers of the Kaiyuan temple 開元寺 in Quanzhou 泉州.

 

Bibliographic reference: Medley, Margaret, Illustrated Catalogue of Underglaze Blue and Copper Red Decorated Porcelains, London, University of London, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1976

Pierson, Stacey, Illustrated Catalogue of Underglaze Blue and Copper Red Decorated Porcelains in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, University of London, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, 2004

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