Chu Dau or My Xa kilns
Dish with Foliate Rim and Island Motif
late 15th century
Scroll
Chu Dau or My Xa kilns
Dish with Foliate Rim and Island Motif
late 15th century
Physical Qualities
Stoneware with underglaze cobalt decoration
, 2 3/4 × 13 1/4 in. (7 × 33.7 cm.)
Credit Line
Art Fund established with exchange funds from gifts of Dr. and Mrs. Edgar F. Berman, Equitable Bank, N.A., Geoffrey Gates, Sandra O. Moose, National Endowment for the Arts, Lawrence Rubin, Philip M. Stern, and Alan J. Zakon
Object Number
2022.5
This Vietnamese dish places a design of discrete islands or landscapes within a Chinese-inspired shape and paneled borders. Unlike the Chinese prototype, it wasnot made of porcelain. Chu Dau kilns produced blue-and-white stoneware in the 15th and early 16th centuries, when ceramic exports from China were substantially restricted. Two shipwrecks demonstrate the impact on trade. The Royal Nanhai sank off Malaysia in 1460 transporting 20,973 ceramics, only seven of which were made in China. The mid-15th-century Pandanan, recovered from Philipine waters, carried 4,722 ceramics, 75% made in Vietnam.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2022; Kaikodo, Pepeekeo, Hawaii by purchase, June 2017; [unidentified] Japanese dealer in Tokyo
Collection installation, "Asia. Islands across Asia: Crossroads," Levy Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art, October 5, 2023-
On View: Levy Gallery 1
