Sweetmeat dish in the form of a hare

Description

A blue and white porcelain dish in the shape of a crouched hare or rabbit. Late Ming dynasty, reign of Tianqi (1621-1627) (Emperor Zhe).

Object data

Accession number

MG 116 B

Creator

China

Date made

17th century AD

Materials

Ceramic; Porcelain

Collection

Dimensions (cm)

Provenance

File of material relating to a rabbit dish. Includes photocopy of image of object which also records basic information about object, namely, title, medium, origin and period (date unspecified); photocopy of Hunt Museum object comment sheet (17 April 1996) containing comments made about object by Peter Francis. He states it is probably Arita, early Japanese, and dates it to the late seventeenth century; photocopy of extract from a Sothebys catalogue of sale (30 March 1978) which contains image of similar object; photocopy of extract from exhibition catalogue for 'Seventeenth-century blue and white and copper-red and their predecessors' (S. Marchant and Son, Kensington Church Street, London, c. June 1997).

Place of collection

Culture

Technique

Copyright Attribution

Sweetmeat dish in the form of a hare or rabbit | Ceramic,Porcelain | 17th century AD | The Hunt Collection | PD

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