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Object 2011473

Dish

Annamese (Vietnamese)

c.1500

Height 71 mm (2.80 inch), diameter 360 mm (14.17 inch), diameter of footring 210 mm (8.27 inch)

Dish on footring, spreading sides, narrow flat rim with raised edge. Decorated in a strong underglaze blue with a large chrysanthemum spray with leaves. On the sides chrysanthemum and leafy scrolls. On the rim a 'classic' scroll motif. The edge unglazed. On the reverse a band of lotus panels containing leaf-forms. The base is covered with a chocolate slip of iron or manganes oxide, applied spirally on the biscuit, from the centre of the base outwards

Vietnamese stone wares and porcelains were an important trade item in the 15th and 16th centuries throughout S.E. Asia. Jars, bowls, architectural elements, figures and in particular large, sturdy porcelain dishes were part of the varied output of the many kilns in northern Vietnam. Competition with Chinese ceramics is evident - even on the markets of the Middle East - but at the same time the Vietnamese wares have their own identity and charm. The decorations are painted in an easy way, with quick strokes of the brush, without becoming coarse; the blue usually shows darker and lighter shades. Motives include peonies and lotus, birds, fishes and mythical animals like dragons. The chocolate-brown base is a characteristic that only is found on Vietnamese wares; its function is not clear yet.

For similarly decorated dishes see;

• Porcelain and the Dutch East India Company, as recorded in the Dagh-registers of Batavia castle, those of Hirado and Deshima and other contemporary papers 1602-1682, (T. Volker, Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, E.J. Brill, Leiden 1954, reprint 1971), Pl. XXXI, cat. 52a & 52b.
• Vietnamese Ceramics. Catalogue of the exhibition organized by the Southeast, Asian Ceramic Society and held at the National Museum, Singapore in June 1982, (C.M. Young, ed., M.-F. Dupoizat, and E. W. Lane, Oxford University Press / Southeast Asian Ceramic Society, Tanglin, Singapore, 1982), cat. 192.
• Vietnamese Ceramics. A Separate Tradition, (J. Stevenson & John Guy, Art Media Resources with Avery Press, Chicago, 1997), p.155, fig. 3; cat. nos 239, 272.
• Keramiek uit Vietnam / Ceramics from Vietnam (S. Borstlap, Museum het Princessehof Nederlands Keramiek Museum, Leeuwarden, 1993), pp.30-31, cat. 25.

• Sotheby's Concise Encyclopedia of Porcelain, (D. Battie, Conran Octopus Limited, London, 1994), p.38.

Condition: A firing flaw and a P-shaped hairline to the rim.

References:

Volker 1954, reprint 1971, Pl. IV, cat. XXXI, cat. 52a & 52b

Young 1982, cat. 192

Stevens & Guy 1997, p.155, fig. 3; cat. nos 239, 272

Borstlap 1993, cat. 25

London 1994, p.38

Price: Sold.

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Object 2010200

Jarlet

Annamese (Vietnamese)

c.1500

Height 92 mm (3.62 inch), diameter 88 mm (3.46 inch), diameter of rim 29 mm (1.14 inch), diameter of footring 49 mm (1.93 inch), weight 269 grams (9.49 ounce (oz.))

Octagonal jarlet on footring with angled shoulder and a short upright neck. Crackled glaze. Decorated in underglaze blue with octagonal shaped panels filled with flowering plants alternating with rectangular shaped panels filled with a zig-zag-lines pattern. Round the shoulder panels with flower sprays alternating with panels with zig-zag lines. Round the shoulder an overlapping pointed lotus leaf-pattern border.

Similarly shaped and decorated jarlets were found amongst the salvaged cargo of the The Lena Shoal junk shipwreck which sank around 1490 during the Ming-Dynasty in the reign of the Emperor Hongzhi. The Lena shipwreck was discovered in 1997 at a depth of 48 meters.  She was wrecked on a reef and sank off the island of Busuanga, in the Philippines, one of about 7,000 islands, reefs and sandbanks in the area. It contained more than 5,000 objects, mostly Asian ceramics, but also small bronze guns, lacquer toilets, bronze bracelets, lead and iron ingots, woks, copper containers, spices, glass beads and elephant tusks. (source: UNESCO)

For similarly shaped and decorated jarlets, please see:

• Annamese ceramics in the Museum Pusat Jakarta, (C. Lammers in collaboration with A. Ridho, , Jakarta, 1974, p.62, cat. 5A90/1945.

Condition: Some firing flaws to the footring caused by the firing process.

Reference:

Lammers en Ridho 1974, cat. 5A90/1945

Price: Sold.

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