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Dish with a fisherman carrying oar and a baskettop

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Dish with a fisherman carrying oar and a basket

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › China › Jiangxi province › Jingdezhen › 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
    processed material › ceramic › porcelain,
    processed material › enamel
    Technique index
    covered › coated › glazed,
    glazed,
    covered › coated › enamelled
    Object type index
    container › vessel › dish
    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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