Eastern Art Online, Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art

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Dish with a fisherman carrying oar and a basket

  • Details

    Associated place
    AsiaChinaJiangxi provinceJingdezhen Jingdezhen kilns (place of creation)
    Date
    18th - 19th century (1701 - 1900)
    Associated people
    Chenghua, Emperor of China (ruled 1465 - 1487) (named on object)
    Material and technique
    porcelain, with polychrome overglaze enamels
    Dimensions
    3.5 cm (height)
    15.8 cm (diameter)
    at foot 9.5 cm (diameter)
    Material index
    Technique index
    coveredcoated glazed,
    Object type index
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
    Accession no.
    EA1978.1041
  • Further reading

    Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 18 July-13 September 1981, and London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981, Eastern Ceramics and Other Works of Art from the Collection of Gerald Reitlinger: Catalogue of the Memorial Exhibition, Deborah Willis, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum and London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981), no. 136 on p. 58, illus. p. 58

Glossary

porcelain

  • porcelain

    Ceramic material composed of kaolin, quartz, and feldspar which is fired to a temperature of c.1350-1400⁰c. The resulting ceramic is vitreous, translucent, and white in colour.

Location

    • currently in research collection

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