Large Ming Dynasty dish with a pomegranate tree

An image of Large Dish. Unknown, Fujien province. Circular with low curved sides, standing on an undercut footring. Kiln debris has adhered to the footring and the lower side of the bowl. Decorated in the well with birds in a pomegranate tree enclosed by two close-set concentric circles, a space and another circle. The sides are decorated with scrolling peony, chrysanthemum, lotus and (?) camellia and with two narrow bands round the rim. On the outside walls there are chrysanthemum and peach bushes, interrupted on the rim by a rectangular outline enclosing the Da Ming Jiajing nian ji mark. Hard-paste porcelain, thrown, and painted underglaze in pale blue; unglazed base, height, minimum, 9.0 cm, height, maximum, 9.8 cm, diameter, whole, 50.8 cm, circa 1530. Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), early 16th century.

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Large Dish. Unknown, Fujien province. Circular with low curved sides, standing on an undercut footring. Kiln debris has adhered to the footring and the lower side of the bowl. Decorated in the well with birds in a pomegranate tree enclosed by two close-set concentric circles, a space and another circle. The sides are decorated with scrolling peony, chrysanthemum, lotus and (?) camellia and with two narrow bands round the rim. On the outside walls there are chrysanthemum and peach bushes, interrupted on the rim by a rectangular outline enclosing the Da Ming Jiajing nian ji mark. Hard-paste porcelain, thrown, and painted underglaze in pale blue; unglazed base, height, minimum, 9.0 cm, height, maximum, 9.8 cm, diameter, whole, 50.8 cm, circa 1530. Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), early 16th century.

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Accession Number: C.12-2002
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 642 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 194.80kB
Exposure time: 1/45
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1

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