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14 juillet 2012

Saucer dish. Porcelain with moulded and incised designs, transparent and copper-red glazes. Ming dynasty, Yongle period

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Saucer dish. Porcelain with moulded and incised designs, transparent and copper-red glazes. Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province江西省, 景德鎮. Ming dynasty, Yongle period, AD1403–24. On loan from Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art. PDF  C503 © Trustees of the British Museum

Height: 36 mm. Diameter: 171 mm. Moulded decoration on inside of two dragons round the sides and three incised clouds at the centre. Covered inside and outside with slightly crackled copper-red glaze fading to white at rim. Plain glaze on base.Moulded decoration on inside of two dragons round the sides and three incised clouds at the centre. Covered inside and outside with slightly crackled copper-red glaze fading to white at rim. Plain glaze on base.

‘Sacrificial’, fresh or deep red monochrome-glazed porcelain of the Yongle and Xuande era represents the peak of technical achievement at Jingdezhen. As vessels ordered for ritual use by the early fifteenth century Ming emperors, they enjoy a status above that of other porcelains. The glaze has ‘crept’ at the rim of the dish to reveal the pure whiteness of the porcelain body. The glassy glaze is covered in tiny pin prick holes like skin pores and the colour possesses an incredible powdery depth, yielding layer upon layer of strong red shades of colour. In the cavetto is a design of dragons chasing flaming pearls.

 

Previous owner/ex-collection Hon Mountstuart William Elphinstone (Medley 1973). 

NoteThe Hon M.W. Elphinstone was the brother of the sixteenth Lord Elphinstone. He was at the War Office 1914-19. He joined the Oriental Ceramic Society in 1929 and in 1933, with the President George Eumorfopoulos (q.v.) he was responsible for enlarging the Society to include all those interested in oriental ceramics. He was Hon Secretary from 1934-1944, during the Second World War when meetings were held at Lancaster House. He contributed many pieces to the Royal Academy exhibition of 1935-6. There are over 200 objects from the Elphinstone Collection which were given to the Percival David Collection in 1952. He donated to the British Museum 1927-1934. Besides Oriental Porcelain he was also interested in portrait photography.

Bibliographic reference: Medley, Margaret, Illustrated Catalogue of Ming and Ch'ing Monochrome in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, University of London, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1973

Scott, Rosemary, Illustrated Catalogue of Ming and Qing Monochrome 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, 1989

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