Lobe-rimmed bowl with flowers and fruit of the four seasons in underglaze blue, Ming dynasty, Xuande reign (1426-1435)

Lobe-rimmed bowl with flowers and fruit of the four seasons in underglaze blue, Ming dynasty, Xuande reign (1426-1435)

• Image Number: K1B003071N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Ming dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Material: Mineral/ceramic/porcelain
• Description:
  Bowl, six petal sunflower shaped mouth, deep wall, short circle foot. Twelve flowers are painted along the lower two strings at the inner mouth of the bowl, six four season flowers are painted on the inner wall, and one peach is painted in the three strings at the bottom center. The outer wall mouth has two lines along the lower chord, and the body is painted with six branches of twig flowers and fruits on the upper and lower layers. Two strings are painted on the upper and lower circles of the foot wall, and one cloud pattern is painted on the interior. The blue and white double circles on the outer bottom of the utensil are printed in two lines of regular script, “Made in Xuande Year of the Ming Dynasty”.