Dish with flowering pomegrante, fruiting branches and lotus sprigs, in underglaze blue on a yellow ground, Ming dynasty, Hongzhi reign, 1488-1505

Dish with flowering pomegrante, fruiting branches and lotus sprigs, in underglaze blue on a yellow ground, Ming dynasty, Hongzhi reign, 1488-1505

• Image Number: K1B003334N000000000PAD
• Dynasty: Ming dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  The mouth is narrow, the wall is shallow, the belly is round, and the feet are short. The inner bottom of the plate is painted with folded branches of blue and white flowers, the outer circle is painted with double circles of blue string patterns, the inner wall is painted with peach fruit, lotus and lotus root, autumn persimmon, cherry and other four kinds of auspicious fruits, and the outer wall is painted with seven twig peony flowers, three leaves like flowers, separated from the peony, forming a regular pattern. The gaps are painted yellow. There is a circle of white glaze around the foot, and the round bottom is also white glaze. The center of the bottom is printed with blue and white “made in Hongzhi year of the Ming Dynasty” six character double line double circle regular script. The development of low-temperature yellow glaze in Hongzhi Kiln of the Ming Dynasty reached its peak, mastering the technology of the yellow ground blue and white porcelain since Xuande of the Ming Dynasty. This yellow ground blue and white porcelain fired the yellow glaze on white porcelain, making the yellow color appear lighter, also known as “delicate yellow”. The delicate yellow glaze in the Hongzhi period of the Ming Dynasty is particularly famous. The hair color of blue and white flowers is more beautiful against the yellow color ground.