Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1620-1644 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:flower immortal
Dimensions:Diameter: 10.20 centimetres Height: 5.10 centimetres
Description:
Two porcelain bowls with underglaze blue decoration. Stylistically similar to BM Franks. 812 and BM Franks. 810 these two conical bowls each stand on a broad foot ring. Inside they are decorated with an apocryphal four-character Yongle reign mark, but surrounding this and repeated around the inner rim is a border of spirals with simple five-petalled flowers and with chrysanthemums. Outside one bowl is painted with several vignettes of scholarly immortals. One shows a man painting characters on to a rock, observed by a companion; two scholars are depicted in a separate scene playing chess while observed by a third man; in the final scene two scholars are painted in conversation, one holding a fan. The painting of the second bowl is much cruder. A scholar is seated in a garden beside a pile of books, attended by two servants. The rims of both bowls are badly chipped.
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![图片[1]-bowl BM-Franks.812-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00253814_001.jpg)
Comments:See also Franks.810 and Franks.811.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:flower immortal
Dimensions:Diameter: 10.20 centimetres Height: 5.10 centimetres
Description:
Two porcelain bowls with underglaze blue decoration. Stylistically similar to BM Franks. 812 and BM Franks. 810 these two conical bowls each stand on a broad foot ring. Inside they are decorated with an apocryphal four-character Yongle reign mark, but surrounding this and repeated around the inner rim is a border of spirals with simple five-petalled flowers and with chrysanthemums. Outside one bowl is painted with several vignettes of scholarly immortals. One shows a man painting characters on to a rock, observed by a companion; two scholars are depicted in a separate scene playing chess while observed by a third man; in the final scene two scholars are painted in conversation, one holding a fan. The painting of the second bowl is much cruder. A scholar is seated in a garden beside a pile of books, attended by two servants. The rims of both bowls are badly chipped.
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Comments:See also Franks.810 and Franks.811.
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