bowl BM-PDF-A.648

Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1465-1487
Materials:porcelain
Technique:underglazed

Dimensions:Diameter: 149 millimetres Height: 70 millimetres

Description:
Porcelain bowl. Underglaze blue with wide band of scrolling day lilies between parallel blue lines. Similar scrolling lilies inside and stylised flowerhead in double circle in the centre. There is an inscription on the base.
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Comments:Published PDF date : Ming Chenghua Room 95 label text:PDF A648 ‘Palace’ bowls with daylilies This palace bowls show daylilies, recognised by their five petals, three sepals and long thin leaves. Daylilies are called 萱草 (xuancao), and are a rebus for many sons and grandsons. Arguably the emperor was more concerned with his succession in the later part of his reign and porcelains with decoration related to fertility and sons became more popular. He had only one surviving son who went on to succeed him to the throne as the Hongzhi emperor (AD 1488–1505). Archaeologists have excavated similar bowls from a late Chenghua era context at Jingdezhen of about AD 1482 to 1487.Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue decorationJingdezhen, Jiangxi province江西省, 景德鎮Ming dynasty, Chenghua mark and period, AD1465–87 PDF A648萱草紋宮碗這件瓷碗花紋為萱草，可由其五花瓣、三花萼和細長的葉子辨識。萱草圖案代表多子多孫。可以這么說，成化皇帝在位后期頗為關心繼承人問題，帶有象征生息繁衍和子嗣眾多裝飾的瓷器因而較為多見。成化皇帝僅有一個兒子長大成人，繼承其皇位為弘治皇帝（1488–1505年）。考古學家在景德鎮成化后期考古遺存中發掘出土了類似的瓷碗，年代約為1482 到1487年。瓷器，青花江西省景德鎮明代，成化， 成化款，1465-1487年