Title

Deep blue dish with carved dragon design, 1522-1566. Artist: Unknown.

Caption

A dark blue monochrome deep dish with carved frontally facing imperial five-clawed dragon design amid clouds in the centre chasing flaming pearl. The cavetto and the reverse have further carved imperial dragons above a false lappet border. The rim is slightly outturned. The piece is covered overall with a dark blue glaze of so-called 'sacrifical blue' colour. The base has a six-character mark of Jiajing in underglaze blue within a double circle and the piece is of the period.
Bath (England), The Museum of East Asian Art

Date

1522

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B82_340

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

57,2Mb (1,1Mb) / 18,2in x 12,2in / 5473 x 3654 (300dpi)

Keywords

blue country China Chinese color colour marking ming ceramic location century image studio shot dynasty Ming Dynasty concept upside down B&W underside MONOCHROME white background black & white black and white B W 16th century sixteenth century Museum of East Asian Art Jiajing period object Unknown ceramic Sydney Smith Sydney Smith Sydney Smith ceramic object