Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1426-1435
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:architectural feature lotus nut/seed
Dimensions:Diameter: 7.60 centimetres Height: 6 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain lianzi (lotus-seed) bowl with underglaze blue decoration. This small lianzi [lotus-seed] bowl has a narrow foot and sides which curve slightly inwards at the rim. It is painted in underglaze blue with a concentric design inside of a stylized lotus surrounded by a band of squared hooks and a ring of overlapping spearhead gadroons. The rim is decorated with classic scroll. Outside around the rim and foot are bands of key-fret. Above the foot are sparsely placed lotus petals overlapped with spearhead gadroons. The base carries a six-character Xuande reign mark.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Such bowls were highly prized in the West in the fifteenth century. Indeed a beautiful oil painting of the Madonna and Child by Francesco Benaglio (1432-c.1492), believed to date from 1460-70, now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, depicts a similar bowl. The Virgin supports the Christ child on a velvet cushion and to the viewer’s right is a blue-and-white bowl of the present type filled with fresh figs. The use of such a vessel by the mother of God indicates the high regard in which Chinese porcelain was then held. Bowls of similar design were also made in the preceding Yongle period (see BM 1952.0513.1), so it is possible that the bowl shown in the painting was made earlier in the Yongle era.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:architectural feature lotus nut/seed
Dimensions:Diameter: 7.60 centimetres Height: 6 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain lianzi (lotus-seed) bowl with underglaze blue decoration. This small lianzi [lotus-seed] bowl has a narrow foot and sides which curve slightly inwards at the rim. It is painted in underglaze blue with a concentric design inside of a stylized lotus surrounded by a band of squared hooks and a ring of overlapping spearhead gadroons. The rim is decorated with classic scroll. Outside around the rim and foot are bands of key-fret. Above the foot are sparsely placed lotus petals overlapped with spearhead gadroons. The base carries a six-character Xuande reign mark.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Such bowls were highly prized in the West in the fifteenth century. Indeed a beautiful oil painting of the Madonna and Child by Francesco Benaglio (1432-c.1492), believed to date from 1460-70, now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, depicts a similar bowl. The Virgin supports the Christ child on a velvet cushion and to the viewer’s right is a blue-and-white bowl of the present type filled with fresh figs. The use of such a vessel by the mother of God indicates the high regard in which Chinese porcelain was then held. Bowls of similar design were also made in the preceding Yongle period (see BM 1952.0513.1), so it is possible that the bowl shown in the painting was made earlier in the Yongle era.
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