Dish

Dish: wide base, curved flaring sides, heavily potted, slightly rolled rim, rounded foot-rim, base cut with center depression, rim chip, foot-rim chipped for several inches.

Clay: very pale gray celadon porcelain with brick-red surface oxidation where exposed in firing.

Glaze: celadon of slightly olive cast, surface abraded from use on inside, less so on outside, foot-rim originally glazed has been worn and/or ground down. Red unglazed ring where supported in kiln with center spots of glaze.

Decoration: carved in paste. Inside: center, lattice-like interlocking lozenges in a diamond pattern (reminiscnet of the “cash” pattern) with a quatrefoil frame. In cavetto is a lotus and chrysanthemum scroll, and outside a foliate scroll based on the single chrysanthemum.

Historical period(s)
Ming dynasty, 15th century
Medium
Stoneware with celadon glaze
Style
Longquan ware
Dimensions
H x Diam: 8 × 36.7 cm (3 1/8 × 14 7/16 in)
Geography
China, Zhejiang province, Longquan
Credit Line
Gift of Louis S. Rothchild
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Accession Number
F1979.43
On View Location
Currently not on view
Classification(s)
Ceramic, Vessel
Type

Dish

Keywords
China, chrysanthemum, flower, green glaze, Longquan ware, lotus, Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644), stoneware
Provenance

To 1974
Louis S. Rothchild, Washington, DC [1]

From 1974
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Louis S. Rothchild, Washington, DC [2]

Notes:

[1] Object file, folder sheet note dated May 17, 1996. Also see Curatorial Remark 5 in the object record.

[2] The object was transferred from the Study Collection to the Permanent Collection. See note 1.

Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)

Louis S. Rothchild

Description

Dish: wide base, curved flaring sides, heavily potted, slightly rolled rim, rounded foot-rim, base cut with center depression, rim chip, foot-rim chipped for several inches.

Clay: very pale gray celadon porcelain with brick-red surface oxidation where exposed in firing.

Glaze: celadon of slightly olive cast, surface abraded from use on inside, less so on outside, foot-rim originally glazed has been worn and/or ground down. Red unglazed ring where supported in kiln with center spots of glaze.

Decoration: carved in paste. Inside: center, lattice-like interlocking lozenges in a diamond pattern (reminiscnet of the "cash" pattern) with a quatrefoil frame. In cavetto is a lotus and chrysanthemum scroll, and outside a foliate scroll based on the single chrysanthemum.

Collection Area(s)
Chinese Art
Web Resources
Google Cultural Institute
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