Angled-rim washer with flowers design in underglaze blue, Ming dynasty, Yongle reign (1403-1424)-China Archive

Image Number: K1B016863N000000000PAB
Dynasty: Ming dynasty
Category: Ceramics
Function: Container
Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
Description:
This blue and white porcelain is open and extravagant, with deep walls and flat bottoms. The inner bottom center is painted with a pattern of round flowers, the outer water ripple pattern, the inner wall with a tangled four season flower pattern, and the mouth is painted with a ripple pattern. The mural outside the utensil has a tangled flower pattern, which is arranged in an orderly manner. A flower pattern is decorated around the outer edge of the utensil. In the early Ming Dynasty, the blue and white porcelain of Yongle and Xuande periods used imported Su Mali as the green material for color painting. The color was bright and bright. Due to the influence of the proportion of manganese and iron in the glaze, there were blue seepage spots and iron brown spots at the denser part of the blue and white porcelain. The design of this porcelain was painted with small brush. The brushwork was thin and strong, and the focus was on leaving white, clear and elegant. There is no glaze on the outsole, and light gray body is exposed. The imperial kilns of the Yongzheng and Qianlong dynasties in the Qing Dynasty all had imitations of burning, and the decorative patterns and burning traces of imitations were different from those of the Yongle period.