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Description: | Thickly potted blue and white porcelain dish with a plain rim, slightly rounded sides and a high foot-ring. The dish is decorated in 15th century style in deep but uneven blue under a transparent glaze. A bunch of lotus, sagittaria and water chestnut tied with a narrow ribbon is painted at the centre of the dish. This is surrounded by composite flower scroll in the cavetto and a narrow band of classic scroll below the rim. On the outside of the dish is a composite flower scroll between a narrow key fret border below the rim and a classic scroll band around the base. The various bands are separated by double lines. The main body of the dish is covered in a transparent glaze slightly tinged with blue, which shows undulations and pittings in the surface. The foot rim and base are unglazed. 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. 44 | Subjects: | dish receptacle/vessel dish | Source: | Vads | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=342... | Go to resource |
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