Longquan ware
(China)
- Title
- Dish with carved lotus design
- Place of origin
-
Zhejiang Province →
China
- Period
- Ming dynasty 1368 - 1644 → China
- Year
- circa 1400-1450
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- celadon
- Dimensions
-
6.9 x 46.5cm
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Bequest of Laurence G. Harrison 1997
- Accession number
- 394.1997
- Location
- Upper Asian gallery
- Further information
The word 'celadon', still in popular usage, was introduced by a 19th-century French collector after a character in a 17th-century French play whose costume was a similar green in colour. The word does not occur in Chinese scholarship, where 'greenwares' is the preferred term.
The Asian Collections, AGNSW, 2003, pg.108.
- Bibliography (2)
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J. Hepburn Myrtle (Australia, b.1911, d.1998) (Author), Chinese porcelain of the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties, Sydney, 1977, 16, 40 (illus.). cat.no. 4, plate no. 1
'Early Ceramics', The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales 2003, 2003, 108 (colour illus.).
- Exhibition history (1)
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Chinese porcelain of the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 18 Feb 1977–26 Jun 1977.
