Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1426-1435
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:plant fruit,flower lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 17.30 centimetres Height: 8 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain bowl with underglaze blue decoration. This bowl has rounded sides, an everted rim and a slightly convex base supported by a raised tapering foot ring. It is covered with a blue-white ‘orange-peel’ glaze pitted with small indentations and is painted in underglaze blue inside with a single stylized lotus spray within a double ring, and in the cavetto with five flowers with continuous scrolling foliage. Clockwise these are: pomegranate, lotus, tree peony, chrysanthemum and hollyhock. Inside the rim is a simple band of scrolling chrysanthemums. The outside is painted with a continuous design of scrolling stylized lotus blooms with a key-fret border above and lotus-petal panels below. The raised foot ring shows a band of classic scroll. The base bears a six-character Xuande reign mark within a double circle.
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![图片[1]-bowl BM-1973-0726.360-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00264297_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-bowl BM-1973-0726.360-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_RRC15214.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Several other bowls of this type survive including, for example, a similarly decorated bowl in the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:plant fruit,flower lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 17.30 centimetres Height: 8 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain bowl with underglaze blue decoration. This bowl has rounded sides, an everted rim and a slightly convex base supported by a raised tapering foot ring. It is covered with a blue-white ‘orange-peel’ glaze pitted with small indentations and is painted in underglaze blue inside with a single stylized lotus spray within a double ring, and in the cavetto with five flowers with continuous scrolling foliage. Clockwise these are: pomegranate, lotus, tree peony, chrysanthemum and hollyhock. Inside the rim is a simple band of scrolling chrysanthemums. The outside is painted with a continuous design of scrolling stylized lotus blooms with a key-fret border above and lotus-petal panels below. The raised foot ring shows a band of classic scroll. The base bears a six-character Xuande reign mark within a double circle.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Several other bowls of this type survive including, for example, a similarly decorated bowl in the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco.
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