Porcelain teapot with three-knots and bamboo-shaped handle in white glaze, 15th century, Ming dynasty

Porcelain teapot with three-knots and bamboo-shaped handle in white glaze, 15th century, Ming dynasty

• Image Number: K1B017825N000000000PAE
• Dynasty: Ming dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  The body of a single handle pot is hemispherical, with a small mouth, a short straight neck, round shoulders, a slightly introverted belly, a flat bottom, and shallow concave feet. There are three annular buttons on the shoulder of the utensil. One side of the utensil body is equipped with a meander, the other side is equipped with a bamboo handle, and a flat top straight wall prototype cover covers the neck. The whole body is painted with white glaze except for the exposed body on the sole of the foot. The whole product is plain without lines, and the glaze is white and smooth. There are not many porcelain pots of the same shape in the world. Another one with the same shape, decorated with a pair of phoenix, is a blue and white three series bamboo jug. Some scholars speculate that both are palace tea vessels in the early Ming Dynasty. In Shen Chuanzhong of the Southern Song Dynasty in Taishan, Guangdong, there was a tin pot with a similar shape in the water. Some scholars speculated that it was a soup bottle used by Muslims.