Glazed red three-fish bowl with high feet

[underglaze red three-fish bowl with high feet]

underglaze red three-fish bowl with high feet, Ming Xuande, height 8.8 cm, caliber 9.9 cm, foot diameter 4.4 cm
The bowl is skimmed, the deep arc belly, the bottom is abundant, and the lower part is skimmed. The whole body is painted with white glaze, with orange peel on the glaze surface. Three red fish protrude from the white glaze on the outer wall of the bowl. The blue and white double coils on the inner bottom are printed with the blue and white regular script “made by the Ming Dynasty Xuande New Year” in two lines and six characters
The shape of this device is dignified, and the fish pattern is vivid, as if three red fish follow each other in the water. The bright orange peel white glaze and the bright underglaze red decoration set off each other, forming an interesting contrast
The underglazed red three-fish pattern high-foot bowl was a new variety in the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty. This kind of high-foot bowl was imitated in the Wanli and Tianqi dynasties of the Ming Dynasty and the Kangxi and Yongzheng dynasties of the Qing Dynasty. Among them, the Kangxi imitations were the most realistic, but the glaze was not as plump and bright as the original, the belly was not full, and the high-foot line was slightly stiff
It is worth mentioning that the three fish patterns on this kind of underglaze red porcelain are the local use of high-temperature copper red glaze. Its fish patterns are convex and have natural ruby luster, which is called “underglaze red treasure firing” in the literature. It is different from the underglaze red porcelain in the general sense, which is painted with patterns in copper red color, and cannot be confused.

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