Bowl with four-seasons flowers decoration in underglaze blue, Ming dynasty, Yongle reign (1403-1424)

Bowl with four-seasons flowers decoration in underglaze blue, Ming dynasty, Yongle reign (1403-1424)

• Image Number: K1B015880N000000000PAE
• Dynasty: Ming dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  The mouth is slightly extravagant, the wall is deep and curved, the upper part is rich and the lower part is closed, the bottom is sharp, and the foot is short. It is called a lotus seed bowl. The center of the bowl is painted with broken branches and loquat patterns. The outer wall of the celadon bowl is a lotus petal, the lower edge of the inner wall mouth is a circle of the moire, and the bowl center has five sunflower patterns. In contrast to the stipulation that the imperial palace should first decide the sample making when making vessels for use in the 26th year of Hongwu’s reign, we can see that in the early Ming Dynasty, the craftsmen in Jingdezhen and Longquan Kiln achieved their goals by printing, painting with cobalt, or painting.