Flared bowl with paired dragons decoration in sweet-white glaze, Ming dynasty, Yongle reign (1403-1424)-China Archive

Image Number: K1B014509N000000000PAB
Dynasty: Ming dynasty
Category: Ceramics
Function: Container
Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
Description:
The mouth of the two small bowls is extravagant, inclined, and short. The organ wall is thin and transparent, with half supporting tyre. The whole body is covered with white and warm glaze, and the body is exposed only at the foot landing place. One of the inner walls of the vessel has a tapered arch with two dragons chasing beads, and the other has a tangled lotus tray decorated with eight treasure patterns. The two bowls have four character seal characters of “Yongle Nian System”, with lace. Similar hairless bowls were unearthed at the Zhushan site in Jingdezhen, and were used together with the Gaozu lamp holder. The practice of using lotus flowers to hold up wheels, buildings, fish, bottles, caps, snails, flowers and knot eight treasures is a decorative pattern on religious vessels in the Yongle period.