1940.188: Circular Dish with Decoration of Flowering and Fruiting Branches
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1940.188
- Title
- Circular Dish with Decoration of Flowering and Fruiting Branches
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- Zhengde period, 1506-1521
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen
- Period
- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/205459
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Porcelain with cobalt blue underglaze and yellow enamel overglaze
- Technique
- Overglaze enamel
- Dimensions
- H. 4.5 x Diam. 21.5 cm (1 3/4 x 8 7/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: "Zhengde nian zhi"
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Samuel C. Davis
- Accession Year
- 1940
- Object Number
- 1940.188
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Fogg Art Museum, The Use of Blue on Chinese Porcelain of the Ming Dynasty 1368-1644, exh. cat., Harvard University Press (Cambridge, Mass., Spring 1947), no. 28a (not illustrated)
- Suzanne G. Valenstein, Ming Porcelains: A Retrospective, exh. cat., China Institute in America (New York, 1970), p. 64, no. 36
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