Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1426-1435
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:dragon,flower lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 19.50 centimetres Height: 9 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain bowl with underglaze blue decoration. This bowl has rounded sides, an everted rim and a slightly convex base supported by a raised tapering foot ring. It is covered with a blue-white ‘orange-peel’ glaze pitted with small indentations and is decorated in underglaze blue inside with a flowering camellia spray contained within a double circle, and with a stylized lotus scroll in the cavetto; inside the rim is a band of classic scroll. The outside is painted with two prancing sinewy three-clawed dragons, both chasing flaming pearls clockwise among ruyi cloud scrolls, with a border of key-fret above and lotus petals below. The raised foot ring is ornamented with a band of classic scroll. The base bears a six-character Xuande reign mark within a double circle.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:This traditional-style bowl was probably part of a large order placed by court officials for tableware to be used by the Xuande emperor, his household and court. Bowls of this shape were already made in the Yongle era at Jingdezhen. An unmarked example with an exterior design of stylized lotus scroll was unearthed from the late Yongle stratum in 1984. Several such bowls survive in public collections. For instance, a bowl painted with the same decoration outside but with different floral decoration inside is in the Matsuoka Art Museum, Tokyo.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:dragon,flower lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 19.50 centimetres Height: 9 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain bowl with underglaze blue decoration. This bowl has rounded sides, an everted rim and a slightly convex base supported by a raised tapering foot ring. It is covered with a blue-white ‘orange-peel’ glaze pitted with small indentations and is decorated in underglaze blue inside with a flowering camellia spray contained within a double circle, and with a stylized lotus scroll in the cavetto; inside the rim is a band of classic scroll. The outside is painted with two prancing sinewy three-clawed dragons, both chasing flaming pearls clockwise among ruyi cloud scrolls, with a border of key-fret above and lotus petals below. The raised foot ring is ornamented with a band of classic scroll. The base bears a six-character Xuande reign mark within a double circle.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:This traditional-style bowl was probably part of a large order placed by court officials for tableware to be used by the Xuande emperor, his household and court. Bowls of this shape were already made in the Yongle era at Jingdezhen. An unmarked example with an exterior design of stylized lotus scroll was unearthed from the late Yongle stratum in 1984. Several such bowls survive in public collections. For instance, a bowl painted with the same decoration outside but with different floral decoration inside is in the Matsuoka Art Museum, Tokyo.
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