Lacquer dish with flowers
The decoration comprises nine different flowers, a rarity in early Ming design.
Details
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Title
Lacquer dish with flowers
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Associated people
possibly Yongle, Emperor of China (ruled 1403 - 1424) (commissioner)possibly Xuande, Emperor of China (ruled 1426 - 1435) (commissioner) -
Associated place
China (place of creation) -
Date
probably 1403 - 1435
Ming Dynasty, Xuande Period (1426 - 1435) -
Material and technique
wood, covered in fabric, and then covered in yellow and red lacquer, with decoration carved through red lacquer
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Object type
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Dimensions
6.2 cm (height)
54.3 cm (diameter)
at foot 43 cm estimated (diameter) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Eric North Bequest Fund, 1981.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1981.9
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Catalogue text
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.
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. 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
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