Small bowl with underglaze blue decoration of lotus petals, Ming dynasty, Xuande reign (1426-1435)-China Archive

Image Number: K1B006012N000000000PAE
Dynasty: Ming dynasty
Category: Ceramics
Function: Food utensil
Material: Mineral/ceramic/porcelain
Description:
It has a round straight mouth, a deep arc wall, and small circles of feet. The center of the bowl is concave with a sharp bottom, and the bottom is slightly convex. It is commonly called a chicken heart bowl. It is generally called a lotus seed bowl because its shape is similar to a lotus house. This kind of lotus seed bowl has three sizes: large, medium and small. This is a small one. The outer wall mouth edge and foot circle are decorated with a circle of palindrome, and the surrounding wall is painted with a circle of double hook lotus petals, with a peach shaped pattern. Draw a circle of curly grass along the inner mouth, decorate a peach petal shaped flower in the center of the bowl, and surround a circle of palindrome and Arabic pattern on the outside. The fetal bone is even, with thick blue and white flowers, and occasionally black and brown defects. Two line six character regular script of “Xuande Year of the Ming Dynasty” in the blue and white script at the bottom. Since the small lotus seed bowl has a small circle, only the “Xuande Nian System of the Ming Dynasty” is written on it, without double circles.