bowl BM-PDF-A.603

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

Dimensions:Diameter: 162 millimetres Height: 38 millimetres

Description:
Lobed porcelain bowl with flattened sides. Underglaze blue with a dragon and clouds roundel in centre and outside with dragons in each lobe. Parallel blue lines around inner and outer rim. There is an inscription on the base.
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Comments:Published PDF date : Ming Xuande 1426-1435 Room 95 label text:PDF A603 Fluted brush-washerPotters invented this fluted shape in response to a court order in the Xuande era. The brush-washer is decorated with a dragon amid clouds in a central roundel inside and with octofoil cartouches framing dragons in clouds in the ten lobes outside. It carries a Xuande mark on its base.Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue decorationJingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮Ming dynasty, Xuande mark and period, AD 1426–35 PDF A603葵式洗陶工在宣德時期因宮廷要求創製了這種帶凹槽的多棱器形。筆洗內部裝飾以團龍雲紋，外壁十棱面都繪八邊形開光，內有雲龍紋。外底署宣德年款。瓷器，青花江西省景德鎮明代，宣德，宣德款，1426-1435年