Title

Red clobbered blue and white saucer with stork, phoenix and dragons, Jiajing (1522-1566). Artist: Unknown.

Caption

A polychrome saucer with slightly outturned rim, Jiajing (1522-1566). The piece is decorated in underglaze blue with a phoenix and stork and long-life character (shou) all in an ogival-shaped central medallion contained within an underglazed blue double lined border circular medallion. There is a swastika diaper round the ogival medallion. The cavetto is undecorated. The reverse has two five-clawed dragons with scales rendered by zig-zag lines in underglaze blue with two floral sprays. The reverse decoration is contained within double lined underglaze blue borders and clobbered with tomato red. The base has a six character blue mark of Jiajing in the centre without any medallion.
Bath (England), The Museum of East Asian Art

Date

1522

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B81_415

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

23,4Mb (873,7Kb) / 9,5in x 9,5in / 2862 x 2862 (300dpi)

Keywords

blue animal red bowl religious bird birds country religion writing white China Chinese saucer color colour mark deity God dragon ming location century character pottery dynasty Ming Dynasty Phoenix mythology handling stork goddess stoneware mythical creature polychrome 16th century sixteenth century Museum of East Asian Art Jiajing period mythical beast white stork white colour Unknown ceramic Smith god of long life Shou Lao Dr Sydney Smith Dr Sydney Dr Sydney Smith ceramic ceramic