Jingdezhen kilns
Large Dish Decorated with a Grasshopper on a Rock
1589-1626
Physical Qualities
Porcelain with underglaze cobalt decoration, 2 3/8 × 13 in. (6 × 33 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mark S. Pratt, Washington, D.C.
Object Number
2021.74
The large grasshopper sits on a rock that is at the water's edge and surrounded by flowers. The eight shaped panels on the wide rim contains eight panels: four with a beribboned double-gourd; conch shell; scroll tube; leaves (fan?), separated by four panels containing flowers growing in a garden.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2021; Mark S. Pratt, Washington, D.C. by purchase,1958; [unidentified source] Tokyo
Collection installation, Levy Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art, October 5, 2024-
On View at the BMA
