Blue-and-white dish with flowering peach branches

Details

• Title

  Blue-and-white dish with flowering peach branches

• Associated place

  Asia › China › Jiangxi province › Jingdezhen › Jingdezhen kilns (place of creation)

  Asia › Japan (original location)

• Date

  1630 - 1640
  Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen Period (1628 - 1644)

• Material and technique

  porcelain, with underglaze painting in cobalt-blue; iron-brown painting on the rim

• Material index

  processed material › ceramic › porcelain;

  processed material › metal › iron

• Technique index

  covered › coated › painted;

  glazed

• Object type

  container › vessel › dish

• Dimensions

  3.7 cm (height)
  19.7 cm (diameter)
  at foot 7.5 cm (diameter)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.

• Museum location

  Second floor | Gallery 38 | China from AD 800

• Museum department

  Eastern Art

• Accession no.

  EA1978.2019

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