Dish with auspicious symbols
Details
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Title
Dish with auspicious symbols
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Associated people
Jiajing, Emperor of China (ruled 1522 - 1567) (named on object) -
Associated place
China (place of creation) -
Date
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Material and technique
wood, covered in red and black lacquer, with carved decoration
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Object type
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Dimensions
16.7 cm (height)
16.7 cm max. (diameter) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by E. H. North, 1966.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1966.1
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Catalogue text
Foliated dish, carved red lacquer. The central panel bears the character 'Shou' for long life and the eight panels of the border each bears a flying crane in clouds with a good luck emblem in its beak. The reverse of the dish, also eight panelled, is decorated with lotus and the eight Buddhist emblems of good fortune. An incised mark inlaid with gold gives the reign mark of Chia Ching (1522-1567) of the Ming dynasty.
In: Impey, O. R., and M. Tregear, Oriental Lacquer: Chinese and Japanese Lacquer from the Ashmolean Museum Collections (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1983)
Glossary of terms
lacquer
Further reading
Impey, O. R., and M. Tregear, Oriental Lacquer: Chinese and Japanese Lacquer from the Ashmolean Museum Collections (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1983), no. 2 on p. viii, illus. p. 2
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