Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1426-1435
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 17.50 centimetres (at rim) Height: 10.30 centimetres (with cover)
Description:
Porcelain bowl with underglaze blue decoration. This covered bowl has a slightly angular profile with an everted rim, and a sharply cut-away bottom to the broad foot ring. Two raised ridges encircle the lower half of the body. Outside the bowl is decorated with a formalized lotus scroll with lappets around the bowl above the foot ring. Both cover (BM 1939.0516.1) and bowl are marked inside with six-character underglaze blue Xuande reign marks in a double ring.
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![图片[1]-bowl BM-1930-0421.2-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00262929_001.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The bowl is married to a a cover (BM 1939.0516.1) and, although acquired at different times, are quite well matched. Porcelain covered bowls are an innovation of the Xuande period. At the imperial kilns at Jingdezhen they were made with varied decoration. Examples with underglaze red, underglaze blue with underglaze red, underglaze blue with overglaze iron-red and red glazed examples have been excavated to date. A covered bowl identical to the present example is in the collections of the National Palace Museum, Taipei. Another covered bowl of this type is in the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Such bowls are believed to have been used for mixing alcohol.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 17.50 centimetres (at rim) Height: 10.30 centimetres (with cover)
Description:
Porcelain bowl with underglaze blue decoration. This covered bowl has a slightly angular profile with an everted rim, and a sharply cut-away bottom to the broad foot ring. Two raised ridges encircle the lower half of the body. Outside the bowl is decorated with a formalized lotus scroll with lappets around the bowl above the foot ring. Both cover (BM 1939.0516.1) and bowl are marked inside with six-character underglaze blue Xuande reign marks in a double ring.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The bowl is married to a a cover (BM 1939.0516.1) and, although acquired at different times, are quite well matched. Porcelain covered bowls are an innovation of the Xuande period. At the imperial kilns at Jingdezhen they were made with varied decoration. Examples with underglaze red, underglaze blue with underglaze red, underglaze blue with overglaze iron-red and red glazed examples have been excavated to date. A covered bowl identical to the present example is in the collections of the National Palace Museum, Taipei. Another covered bowl of this type is in the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Such bowls are believed to have been used for mixing alcohol.
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