Red glaze printing cloud dragon pattern high foot bowl

[Red glaze printing Yunlong pattern high foot bowl]

Red glaze printing Yunlong pattern high foot bowl, Ming Hongwu, height 14 cm, caliber 14.6 cm, foot diameter 4.8 cm
The high foot bowl has a skimmed mouth, a curved belly, a thin bottom, and a hollow high foot underneath. High temperature copper red glaze is applied inside and outside the body. The core of the bowl is arched with a folded cloud pattern, and the inner wall is molded with a cloud dragon pattern. The two dragons are five-claw dragons with the same image, which are in the chase shape and separated by two cloud patterns. There is no blue and white glaze in the high foot
In the past, people set the age of this red glazed high-foot bowl as the Yuan Dynasty, but with the development of cultural relics and archaeology, new materials continue to be unearthed, and people use typological methods to gradually identify a large number of official kiln porcelain belonging to the Hongwu period in the early Ming Dynasty from the porcelain formerly designated as the Yuan Dynasty. This red glaze bowl with high feet has the style of Yuan Dynasty, but it is not the same in terms of its shape, glaze, cloud pattern and dragon pattern. Compared with the same type of high-foot bowl in the Yuan Dynasty, its carcass became thinner and the bottom of the bowl became thinner (Feng Pingshan Museum, University of Hong Kong: Jingdezhen Unearthed Ceramics, plate 125, published by Feng Pingshan Museum, University of Hong Kong, 1992). In particular, the cloud pattern and dragon pattern decorated are completely consistent with the cloud pattern and dragon pattern on the Hongwu official kiln porcelain specimen unearthed at the Ming Palace Museum site in Nanjing. Therefore, the age of this red-glazed high-foot bowl should be determined as Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty. In 1979, the fragments of this Hongwu red glazed high-foot bowl were unearthed in Zhushan, Jingdezhen (Feng Pingshan Museum, University of Hong Kong: Jingdezhen Unearthed Ceramics, plate 188, published by Feng Pingshan Museum, University of Hong Kong, 1992)