Plate with Grapes and Floral Sprays (1403–24): Art, History and Details

Plate with Grapes and Floral Sprays (1403–24) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This large platter with grape and floral decoration, which is different from small stem cups decorated with dragons, CMA 1957.60 and CMA 1964.168, was made primarily for export to southeastern and western Asia. However, a similar example bearing the Xuande reign mark has also been excavated from the Ming imperial kilns at Jingdezhen.

Object facts

• Title: Plate with Grapes and Floral Sprays
• Date: 1403–24
• Culture: China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen, Ming dynasty (1368–1644), Yongle period (1403–24)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: porcelain with underglaze blue decoration
• Dimensions: Diameter: 43.2 cm (17 in.); Overall: 7.7 cm (3 1/16 in.)
• Collection: China - Ming Dynasty
• Department: Chinese Art
• Accession number: 1953.127

Collection credit

Anonymous Gift

Further reading listed by the museum

• Garner, Harry Mason. Oriental Blue and White. London: Faber and Faber, 1954.
• Zauhō Kankōkai 座右寶刋行會. Sekai tōji zenshū [Catalogue of World's Ceramics = 世界陶磁全集]. Vol. 2. Nara, Heian, Kamakura, Muromachi hen 奈良. 平安. 鎌倉. 室町篇. Tōkyō: Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 1955.
• Lee, Sherman E. “Early Ming Blue and White Porcelains.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 42, no. 2, 1955, pp. 27–31.

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