[Sunflower dish with red landscape figures]
Sunflower dish with red landscape figures, Ming Yongle, height 4.5 cm, caliber 33 cm
The plate is of the type of ten sunflowers. The plate is carved with landscape pavilions in the center, and there are several plum flowers in the garden. An old man looks back with a stick, and a boy holds a piano. There is an old man sitting upright in the pavilion. The inner wall is decorated with chrysanthemum, camellia, lotus, peony, peach, hibiscus, rose, gardenia, peony and pomegranate in a clockwise direction, while the outer wall is arranged with hibiscus, gardenia, peony, pomegranate, chrysanthemum, camellia, peony, lotus, rose and peach in a counterclockwise direction. The two are arranged in groups with each other. The outer bottom is painted with brown paint. It can be inferred from the characteristics of rich paint, mellow and vigorous carving, fine grinding, hidden edges not exposed, and small sunflower-shaped brocade patterns that this sunflower dish is obviously made by Yongle Orchard Factory