Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1426-1435 (or later)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:incised, slipped, glazed,
Subjects:lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 16.20 centimetres Height: 8.70 centimetres Weight: 0.25 kilograms
Description:
Porcelain Lianzi [lotus-seed] bowl with incised and slip decoration beneath a monochrome white glaze. This deep lianzi [lotus-seed] bowl has a small foot with a ‘nipple’ base. Inside it is incised in the centre with a single flower head which is encircled by an indistinct slip pattern and with a faint impressed border of cash around the rim. Outside it is incised with stylized lotus lappets emanating from the foot and with an interlocking wave design around the foot and key-fret around the rim. It is glazed inside and out with a blue-white glaze which is covered with tiny pin-prick bubbles.
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![图片[1]-bowl BM-1954-0421.2-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00255553_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-bowl BM-1954-0421.2-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00898548_001.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Although it is unmarked, it relates closely to blue-and-white porcelain of the Xuande era. Its glaze is also typical of the early fifteenth century. However, several scholars have doubted the authenticity of this bowl, because of the unusual clarity of its incised decoration both inside and out and because of the bowl’s atypical light weight, suggesting instead that it may be an eighteenth-century or a modern copy.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:incised, slipped, glazed,
Subjects:lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 16.20 centimetres Height: 8.70 centimetres Weight: 0.25 kilograms
Description:
Porcelain Lianzi [lotus-seed] bowl with incised and slip decoration beneath a monochrome white glaze. This deep lianzi [lotus-seed] bowl has a small foot with a ‘nipple’ base. Inside it is incised in the centre with a single flower head which is encircled by an indistinct slip pattern and with a faint impressed border of cash around the rim. Outside it is incised with stylized lotus lappets emanating from the foot and with an interlocking wave design around the foot and key-fret around the rim. It is glazed inside and out with a blue-white glaze which is covered with tiny pin-prick bubbles.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Although it is unmarked, it relates closely to blue-and-white porcelain of the Xuande era. Its glaze is also typical of the early fifteenth century. However, several scholars have doubted the authenticity of this bowl, because of the unusual clarity of its incised decoration both inside and out and because of the bowl’s atypical light weight, suggesting instead that it may be an eighteenth-century or a modern copy.
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