Dish with flaring rim

Object Details

• Description

  Dish of white porcelain clay with underglaze cobalt painting beneath a colorless glaze, and with an unglazed base. The rim of the dish is decorated with a wave pattern. The cavetto is painted with a continuous floral scroll of joined plants: lotus, camellia, rose, chrysanthemum, gardenia/carnation?, tree peony, and herbaceous peony. The center of the dish has a mellon vine rooted in soil; two large melons issue from a single branch.. The outside of the dish has six fruiting plants that are cherry, ginkgo(?), peach, lychee, grape, and pomegranate.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Luxury and Luminosity: Visual Culture and the Ming Court (July 3, 2004 to June 26, 2005)

  Crosscurrents in Chinese and Islamic Ceramics (March 1, 1996 to July 1, 1997)

  Chinese Ceramics (May 9, 1993 to April 17, 1995)

  Chinese Art (January 1, 1963 to March 6, 1981)

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Ceramics (March 7, 1957 to January 1, 1963)

  Centennial Exhibition, Gallery 13 (November 10, 1955 to March 1, 1957)

• Origin

  Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

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• Date

  1400s

• Place

  China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen

• Topic

  Porcelain, Art, Fruit, Yongle reign (1403 - 1424), Chinese Art, Ceramics, Flowers, Jingdezhen ware, Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)