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Description: | Ding ware porcelain dish with moulded decoration. The dish has low, rounded sides, very low foot-rim and a slightly concave base. The exterior of the dish is undecorated and the interior has moulded decoration in low relief. In the centre of the dish is a leaping lion and brocaded ball among scrolls, within a narrow band of key fret pattern. There is a band of cloud scrolls and two dragons on the sides of the interior, with a narrow band of key fret pattern below the rim. The dish is made of white porcelain covered with an off-white glaze which has a greenish tint and air bubbles where it runs thick. It was fired upside-down, on the edge of the rim. There are tear marks on the exterior, where the glaze has accumulated. Description Source: Legeza, I.L. 1972. Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Malcolm Macdonald Collection of Chinese Ceramics in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, University of Durham. London: Oxford University Press, p. 32 | Subjects: | dish receptacle/vessel dish | Source: | Vads | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=310... | Go to resource |
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