Blue and White Baby Play Picture Bowl

[Blue and White Baby Play Picture Bowl]

Blue and White Baby Play Picture Bowl, Qing Guangxu, height 7.4 cm, caliber 15.5 cm, foot diameter 5.8 cm
Bowl skimming, arc belly, circle foot. The outer wall is decorated with blue and white, with a grayish blue hair color. There are blue and white double loop lines around the mouth and foot walls. The outer wall is painted with two groups of baby playing pictures. The baby may wear a belly pocket or loose clothes and fat pants, playing playfully, naive and cute. The two sets of images are separated by trees, rocks, and flowers. The outsole has a six character regular script pattern of blue and white “made in the Guangxu era of the Qing Dynasty”
The decorative theme of children’s games is called “Baby Play”, which is one of the typical patterns of porcelain decoration. The baby play picture was first seen in Changsha kiln porcelain during the Tang Dynasty. The appearance of baby play pictures on Qing Dynasty porcelain stems from the stable social life and rapid population growth of the Kangxi Dynasty. Against that backdrop, baby scenes became a familiar artistic scene and influenced court art. During the Tongzhi and Guangxu periods, pictures of infant play were also common.

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