Sancai Dish, Song Dynasty (960 - 1279)

15.00cm diameter ( 5.91 inches in diameter)



The Cizhou type saucer dish incised with a fish in water weed in yellow, white and green. The exterior partly green glazed , showing the thin white underslip as well as the dark brown body . The base unglazed.

Henan province

ref.# 4543



Literature:
Bath Museum of East Asian Art, Vol.1 1993 pl.100 for a similar dish with a pommegranate spray as Jin.

The World's Great Collections, Tokyo 1976, Vol.1 Tokyo Nat. Museum pl.102 for a dish with an incised rabbit design dated 1269, as Yuan.

Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1980 pl.78 with a dish with a duck design as Liao or Jin

Mary Tregear , Song Ceramics pl.83 , where the Tokyo dish is illustrated. She notes that the kiln sites associated with this Cizhou type ware are in the Dengfeng and Baofeng areas in Henan.

Condition:
glaze loss around the rim