Object Details
- Description
- Dish of white porcelain clay with underglaze cobalt painting beneath a colorless glaze, and with an unglazed base. The rim of the dish is decorated with a wave pattern. The cavetto is painted with a continuous floral scroll of joined plants: lotus, camellia, rose, chrysanthemum, gardenia/carnation?, tree peony, and herbaceous peony. The center of the dish has a mellon vine rooted in soil; two large melons issue from a single branch.. The outside of the dish has six fruiting plants that are cherry, ginkgo(?), peach, lychee, grape, and pomegranate.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Luxury and Luminosity: Visual Culture and the Ming Court (July 3, 2004 to June 26, 2005)
- Crosscurrents in Chinese and Islamic Ceramics (March 1, 1996 to July 1, 1997)
- Chinese Ceramics (May 9, 1993 to April 17, 1995)
- Chinese Art (January 1, 1963 to March 6, 1981)
- Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Ceramics (March 7, 1957 to January 1, 1963)
- Centennial Exhibition, Gallery 13 (November 10, 1955 to March 1, 1957)
- Credit Line
- Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
- 1403-1424
- Period
- Ming dynasty, Yongle reign
- Accession Number
- F1953.76a-b
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Porcelain with cobalt decoration under colorless glaze
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 7.3 × 37.7 cm (2 7/8 × 14 7/8 in)
- Style
- Jingdezhen ware
- Origin
- Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- See more items in
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Topic
- ceramic
- flower
- Jingdezhen ware
- Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)
- Yongle reign (1403 - 1424)
- fruit
- China
- porcelain
- Chinese Art
- Record ID
- fsg_F1953.76a-b
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye353cab15f-1e3f-42dc-b540-b75f62c8a6b5
