Detail View: National Palace English: Dish with lotus pond in wu-cai enamels

Work ID: 
M01A00092
Title: 
Dish with lotus pond in wu-cai enamels
Creation Date: 
Cheng-hua reign, Ming Dynasty
Start Year Date: 
A.D.1465
End Year Date: 
A.D.1487
Dynasty: 
54 Cheng-hua reign (A.D. 1465~1487)
Kiln: 
Cheng-hua ware
Creation Place: 
China
Measurements: 
Height: 3.8 cm; Diameter (mouth): 16.8 cm; Diameter (base): 10.4 cm
Material: 
Porcelain
Form: 
Pan (large dish)
Type: 
Ceramics
Subject: 
Birds
Repository: 
The National Palace Museum, Taipei
Description: 
The saucer has a flat center, shallow rounded sides, a flared rim, and a line of Tibetan characters that surrounds the rim. The center has three layers of lotus and two pairs of mandarin ducks. One mandarin duck looks down from the sky while the other amuses itself in the water. The other pair of mandarin ducks paddles leisurely in the water, which is decorated with water lilies. There are four bushes of lotus and four mandarin ducks on the exterior, and each mandarin duck engages in a lonesome paddle. This colorful picture of mandarin ducks in a lotus pond is formed by drawing the silhouettes of the genre in underglaze blue, and then followed by coloring them with overglaze red, green, and brown enamels. Within the foot ring is the reign mark - "made in the Chenghua period of Great Ming" - within a double ring.
ImageV ID: 
M01A00092AS003
Rights: 
Lee & Lee Communications