Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1540-1600 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, kinrande (?), underglazed,
Dimensions:Diameter: 12 centimetres Height: 5.80 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain bowl with underglaze blue, overglaze red, green, turquoise and black enamels. This bowl has rounded sides and a low tapering foot. Its domed ‘mantou’ centre is painted inside in underglaze blue with a flower head, surrounded by symmetrically placed leaves and scroll work in a double ring with cross and diagonal diaper around the rim. Outside there are four large red enamel roundels in green bracket-lobed frames. These are separated by a vertical arrangement of the character ‘wan’ in a lozenge with half-flowers above and below, all on a red diaper ground. The base carries an underglaze blue four-character seal mark in a square which reads 富 贵 佳 器 ‘Fu gui jia qi’ [Fine vessel for the rich and honourable].
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![图片[1]-bowl BM-1945-1016.17-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00268614_001.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Originally the red roundels were probably further ornamented with gold ‘kinrande’ decoration. Ajar with a similar design and with gilded roundels is in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, kinrande (?), underglazed,
Dimensions:Diameter: 12 centimetres Height: 5.80 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain bowl with underglaze blue, overglaze red, green, turquoise and black enamels. This bowl has rounded sides and a low tapering foot. Its domed ‘mantou’ centre is painted inside in underglaze blue with a flower head, surrounded by symmetrically placed leaves and scroll work in a double ring with cross and diagonal diaper around the rim. Outside there are four large red enamel roundels in green bracket-lobed frames. These are separated by a vertical arrangement of the character ‘wan’ in a lozenge with half-flowers above and below, all on a red diaper ground. The base carries an underglaze blue four-character seal mark in a square which reads 富 贵 佳 器 ‘Fu gui jia qi’ [Fine vessel for the rich and honourable].
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Originally the red roundels were probably further ornamented with gold ‘kinrande’ decoration. Ajar with a similar design and with gilded roundels is in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul.
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