Blue and white hand cup with lotus pattern

[Blue and white lotus pressure cup]

Blue and white lotus pressure cup, Ming Yongle, height 5.4 cm, caliber 9.1 cm, foot diameter 3.9 cm. The old collection of the Qing Palace
The reason why this kind of deep belly bowl is called “hand pressure cup” is that its size is moderate, and the fetal body is thin at the mouth edge, and the fetal bone is thicker along the mouth edge. When holding the hand, the mouth edge slightly outward coincides with the relaxation of the tiger’s mouth, and the center of gravity of the cup moves downward, so it is called hand pressure cup
When it comes to the blue and white porcelain of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, the most popular one is the blue and white hand-pressing cup with a lotus pattern. It is the only thing with a model year in the blue and white porcelain of Yongle official kiln that has been seen and unearthed so far, and can be mutually verified with the literature records of the Ming Dynasty. In the late Ming Dynasty, Gu Tai wrote the “Museum Highlights”, which recorded: “If I made a pressure cup in Yongle, with a flat mouth and a bent waist, and the sand feet sliding on the bottom, the center is painted with two lions rolling ball, and the seal book inside the ball is’ made in Yongle of the Ming Dynasty ‘in six or four characters, which is as fine as grain rice, this is the top grade. The mandarin duck heart comes second, and the flower heart comes second. The blue and white outside the cup is deep and green, and the style is exquisite, which can be passed down for a long time, and the price is also very high.”

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