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Lacquer dish with flowers
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Description
The decoration comprises nine different flowers, a rarity in early Ming design.
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
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probably 1403 - 1435
Ming Dynasty, Yongle (1403 - 1424)
Ming Dynasty, Xuande Period (1426 - 1435)
- Associated people
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possibly Xuande, Emperor of China (ruled 1426 - 1435) (commissioner)possibly Yongle, Emperor of China (ruled 1403 - 1424) (commissioner)
- Material and technique
- wood, covered in fabric, and then covered in yellow and red lacquer, with decoration carved through red lacquer
- Dimensions
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6.2 cm (height)
54.3 cm (diameter)
at foot 43 cm estimated (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased, 1981.
- Accession no.
- EA1981.9
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Further reading
Impey, O. R., and M. Tregear, Oriental Lacquer: Chinese and Japanese Lacquer from the Ashmolean Museum Collections (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1983), no. 1 on p. viii, illus. p. 1
Piper, David, and Christopher White, Treasures of the Ashmolean Museum: An Illustrated Souvenir of the Collections, revised edn (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1995), no. 35 on p. 38, illus. p. 39 fig. 35
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 24 May 2006-23 December 2008, Treasures: Antiquities, Eastern Art, Coins, and Casts: Exhibition Guide, Rune Frederiksen, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2006), no. 144 on p. 52, illus. p. 52
Glossary
lacquer
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lacquer
Chinese and Japanese lacquer is made from the sap of the lacquer tree, which is indigenous to Eastern China. It is applied to wood as a varnish or for decorative effect. In India and the Middle East, lacquer is made from the deposit of the lac insect.
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Oriental Lacquer: Chinese and Japanese Lacquer from the Ashmolean Collections
Carved red lacquer dish on wooden base with a fabric foundation. All over decoration with a central motif of a peony, and gardenia camellia, chrysanthemum, lotus, waterweed, peach, prunus and cherry blossom. Six character mark of Xuande 1426-1436 incised on the base.
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