Dish

Description

Dish of Kraak porcelain, decorated in underglaze blue with two scholars in a landscape in circular central medallion surrounded by a flower-scroll border, and sixteen radial panels, and with four ogival plant panels on the underside interspersed with four small panels featuring the Three Friends of Winter (Suihan sanyou): China, late Ming dynasty, 1620 - 1644 AD

Museum reference

A.1935.309

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Dish

Production information

China, East Asia

Date

1620 - 1644

Style / Culture

Ming Dynasty, Chinese

Materials

Porcelain

Physical description

Porcelain; painted in underglaze blue

Exhibitions

• Artistic Legacies (08 Feb 2019)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Artistic Legacies (29 Jul 2011 - 2018)
  National Museum of Scotland

On display

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