Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1368-1398 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, incised, moulded,
Subjects:dragon
Dimensions:Diameter: 16.50 centimetres Height: 7 centimetres
Description:
Bowl with moulded and incised decoration under a monochrome red glaze. This deep bowl has rounded sides and an everted rim; it stands on a low slightly spreading foot ring. It is decorated beneath the glaze with moulded images of sinewy five-clawed dragons with horns pursuing each other around the cavetto and separated by ruyi clouds. In the centre is an incised undulating ruyi cloud. Outside it is incised above the foot with lotus-petal panels. Inside and out it is covered with a copper red glaze. The base is unglazed, with a thick foot ring. The bowl has a large chip in the rim.
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![图片[1]-bowl BM-1936-1012.107-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00255228_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-bowl BM-1936-1012.107-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00303128_001.jpg)
![图片[3]-bowl BM-1936-1012.107-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00309240_001.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The cloudy pinkish hue of the monochrome red glaze here is typical of the Hongwu period. The colour contrasts markedly with the fresh reds produced later in the Yongle reign and the red-brown glaze achieved in the preceding Yuan era. Shards from a bowl of the same shape and decoration were excavated in 1988 from a Hongwu stratum on the west side of Zhonghua Road, Jingdezhen. Such monochrome red bowls with decoration of five-clawed dragons were made at Jingdezhen for imperial ceremonial use.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, incised, moulded,
Subjects:dragon
Dimensions:Diameter: 16.50 centimetres Height: 7 centimetres
Description:
Bowl with moulded and incised decoration under a monochrome red glaze. This deep bowl has rounded sides and an everted rim; it stands on a low slightly spreading foot ring. It is decorated beneath the glaze with moulded images of sinewy five-clawed dragons with horns pursuing each other around the cavetto and separated by ruyi clouds. In the centre is an incised undulating ruyi cloud. Outside it is incised above the foot with lotus-petal panels. Inside and out it is covered with a copper red glaze. The base is unglazed, with a thick foot ring. The bowl has a large chip in the rim.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The cloudy pinkish hue of the monochrome red glaze here is typical of the Hongwu period. The colour contrasts markedly with the fresh reds produced later in the Yongle reign and the red-brown glaze achieved in the preceding Yuan era. Shards from a bowl of the same shape and decoration were excavated in 1988 from a Hongwu stratum on the west side of Zhonghua Road, Jingdezhen. Such monochrome red bowls with decoration of five-clawed dragons were made at Jingdezhen for imperial ceremonial use.
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