Blue and white lotus pond swimming dragon bowl

[Blue and white lotus pond swimming dragon bowl]

Blue and white lotus pond swimming dragon bowl, 7 cm in height, 16 cm in diameter and 6 cm in foot diameter
The bowl is skimmed, the mouth is gradually closed, and the feet are circled. The mouth of the bowl is painted with blue and white sea water patterns for a week, and the heart of the bowl is painted with lotus pool dragon patterns. The outer wall is painted with two dragons running through the lotus pond. As the dragons move, the lotus flowers and water plants also turn and dance. The double-line regular script “made in the Hongzhi year of the Ming Dynasty” in the double-line blue and white circles on the sole of the foot
The lotus pond pattern has already appeared on the ceramic implements of the Yuan Dynasty. In the early Ming Dynasty, Yongle and Xuande combined the lotus pond pattern with the dragon pattern, which was inherited in the Hongzhi period and became one of the most representative motifs of the period. The glaze of this bowl is white and moist, the decorative lines are thin and soft, and the blue and white flowers are blue and slightly gray. It is a representative of the Hongzhi blue and white ware


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