Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1426-1435
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:plant,flower fruit lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 19.40 centimetres Height: 8.30 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain bowl with underglaze blue decoration. This bowl, which has rounded sides, an everted rim and a slightly convex base supported by a raised tapering foot ring, is covered with a blue-tinged ‘orange-peel’ glaze pitted with tiny indentations. It is decorated on the inside in the centre with a scrolling lotus spray within a double circle and in the cavetto with a continuous flower scroll with five blooms: hollyhock, lotus, peony, pomegranate and chrysanthemum. The rim has a band of scrolling chrysanthemums. The outside is decorated with different flowers – lotus, camellia, pomegranate, rose and hollyhock – with a border of key-fret above and lotus-petal panels below; the raised foot has 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:A slightly smaller but otherwise similar bowl is in the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:plant,flower fruit lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 19.40 centimetres Height: 8.30 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain bowl with underglaze blue decoration. This bowl, which has rounded sides, an everted rim and a slightly convex base supported by a raised tapering foot ring, is covered with a blue-tinged ‘orange-peel’ glaze pitted with tiny indentations. It is decorated on the inside in the centre with a scrolling lotus spray within a double circle and in the cavetto with a continuous flower scroll with five blooms: hollyhock, lotus, peony, pomegranate and chrysanthemum. The rim has a band of scrolling chrysanthemums. The outside is decorated with different flowers – lotus, camellia, pomegranate, rose and hollyhock – with a border of key-fret above and lotus-petal panels below; the raised foot has 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:A slightly smaller but otherwise similar bowl is in the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
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