bowl BM-PDF.605

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

Dimensions:Diameter: 252 millimetres Height: 115 millimetres

Description:
Porcelain bowl with thick rounded sides and a low foot ring with a slightly recessed base. The bowl has mottled blue glaze with an orange peel texture on the exterior. There is an inscription in the centre under a colourless glaze.
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Comments:Published PDF date : Ming Xuande 1426-1435 Room 95 label text:PDF 605Dice bowl with ‘snowflake blue’ glazeThe Xuande emperor, despite reigning for just ten years, commissioned an extraordinary variety of forms and patterns from the imperial kilns at Jingdezhen. Both the deep shape and glaze of this bowl used in a dice-throwing game were an innovation of his reign. Potters covered the outside with a blown-on, low temperature, lead-fluxed glaze coloured by cobalt oxide. Chinese connoisseurs called this glaze雪花藍 (xuehualan ‘snowflake blue’ ) to poetically describe the mottled white splodges which resemble snowflakes amid the tones of blue. Surviving examples are very rare.Porcelain with underglaze blue mark, ‘snowflake blue’ and transparent glazesJingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮Ming dynasty, Xuande mark and period, AD1426–35 PDF 605雪花藍釉骰碗儘管宣德皇帝僅僅在位十年，景德鎮御窯廠卻奉命燒造出諸多不同器形和紋飾的瓷器。此深腹藍釉骰碗即是他統治時期的創新製作。陶工們在瓷器外壁吹制以鉛為助熔劑的低溫鈷藍釉。中國鑒賞家們稱之為“雪花藍”，以詩意化描述藍釉釉面上駁雜的白色斑點正如雪花一般。存世作品非常罕有。瓷器，青花款，雪花藍釉及透明釉江西省景德鎮明代，宣德，宣德款，1426-1435年