Chinese Ming dynasty blue and white plate

dc.contributor.other	Van Tilburg, J.A.
dc.date.accessioned	2016-07-06T14:45:47Z
dc.date.available	2016-07-06T14:45:47Z
dc.date.created	1522
dc.date.issued	2010
dc.description	This round riffled porcelain plate with a foliate rim has a wave border on the fluted cavetto and is decorated with a ‘Parrot in fruit tree’ motif in the centre in underglaze blue-and-white. The base is sunken, glazed and marked with Chang Fuh ming kwei (Wealth, honour, long life) 4-character mark in blue. This common inscription, in the shape of a ‘cash’ coin is characteristically sixteenth century. These plates were press-moulded with a central painted panel of parrots in a pomegranate tree. According to Mr Van Tilburg this was the only complete plate to come from the wreck of the Portuguese ship, the São Bento, which sank near the mouth of the Msikaba River on the Pondoland coast in 1554.	en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorship	Ceramic 101	en_ZA
dc.format.extent	40 mm x 200 mm	en_ZA
dc.format.medium	Underglaze blue-and-white porcelain	en_ZA
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2263/53918
dc.publisher	Department of the University of Pretoria Art	en_ZA
dc.relation.ispartofseries	UP-Art : paintings, drawings and sculptures	en_ZA
dc.relation.ispartofseries	D709812	en_ZA
dc.rights	Copyright of the electronic version, University of Pretoria.	en_ZA
dc.subject	porcelain	en_ZA
dc.title	Chinese Ming dynasty blue and white plate	en_ZA
dc.type	Image	en_ZA