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

Image Number: K1B006011N000000000PAF
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 mouth is painted with patterns, and the outer wall is surrounded by lotus petal patterns. The inner mouth is decorated with a circle of deformed pattern, the inner wall is wrapped with peach shaped pattern, the bowl center is decorated with six petal flowers, and the outer pattern is decorated with 16 green lines. The blue and white flowers are deep, with iron brown crystal defects. The fetal bone is thin, firm and white. Two line six character regular script of “Xuande Year of the Ming Dynasty” in the blue and white script at the bottom.