Blue and white melon vase with tangled branches

[Blue and white melon ridge bottle with tangled branches]

Blue and white melon ridge bottle with tangled branches, Mingcheng, height 27.8 cm, caliber 4.3 cm, foot diameter 6.7 cm
The bottle is 4-petal melon prismatic, the mouth is slightly skimmed, the middle of the long neck has a ring of convex ribs, and the neck is divided into two parts: the upper and lower parts, the shoulders are full, the abdomen is inward, and the legs are outward. The bottom white glaze has no pattern. There are three layers of decorative patterns on the neck. Above the convex ridge, there are sea water patterns and broken flower patterns. Below the ridge, there are tangled flower patterns. The shoulder and foot edges are decorated with sea pomegranates for a week, and the abdomen is decorated with tangled branch patterns
The shape of melons in the Ming Chenghua period is more beautiful than that in the Yongle period, with shorter feet and thinner tyres. Bottles, jars and other carving tools in the Chenghua period are less handed down, and melon-shaped bottles with similar shapes are even more rare. This bottle is a representative work of carving tools in the Chenghua period