bowl BM-PDF-B.636

Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1426-1435
Materials:porcelain
Technique:underglazed, anhua,

Dimensions:Diameter: 208 millimetres Height: 76 millimetres

Description:
Porcelain bowl. Underglaze blue with wide band of scrolling lotus flowers and leaves above narrow band of overlapping petals. Central roundel inside with single flower, and anhua slip floral scroll around cavetto. There is an inscription on the base.
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Comments:Published PDF date : Ming Xuande Room 95 label text:PDF B636Bowl with lotus flowers.Craftsmen made this technically accomplished dish by adding an暗花 (anhua ‘secret or hidden decoration’) of raised slip floral scroll, in the interior walls. Then they painted a six-character Xuande reign mark on the base in underglaze blue and painted scrolling lotus flowers and leaves outside and coated the whole dish with a clear glaze. Potters fired the dish at a high-temperature. Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue and anhua decorationJingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮Ming dynasty, Xuande mark and period, AD1426–35 PDF B636蓮花紋碗這件瓷碗工藝高超。工匠在內壁用漿料作出微微凸起的暗花（意為秘密或隱藏的裝飾）纏枝花裝飾。然后在外底署青花六字宣德年款，在外壁繪纏枝蓮花葉，最后整件瓷盤施透明釉，高溫下燒成。瓷器，青花，暗花裝飾江西省景德鎮明代，宣德，宣德款，1426-1435年