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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
  • 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
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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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