Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1465-1487
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:fruit
Dimensions:Diameter: 15.40 centimetres Height: 7 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain ‘palace bowl’ with underglaze blue decoration. This delicately potted bowl has rounded spreading sides and stands on a tapering foot ring. It is painted outside with three separate fruiting melon plants with round fruit, leafy vines and tendrils. The outer rim, foot and join of foot to body are all emphasized by double blue lines. Inside it is plain. The base carries a six-character Chenghua reign mark in a double ring.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:A similar bowl of the same size, also decorated with melons and vines and with a Chenghua mark, was excavated in the Chenghua strata at the imperial kiln site at Jingdezhen. The design of fruiting melon vines was particularly pertinent to the Chenghua emperor’s preoccupations (see BM 1953.0416.2) as melons and vines are a symbol of fecundity, commonly referred to by the four-character phrase ‘gua die mian mian’ [endlessly spreading as the tendrils of melon vine] – thus expressing a wish for a large family with many descendants.Identical examples of melon-decorated ‘palace bowls’ are in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, the Tianminlou Collection, the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, and the Meiyintang Collection. The term ‘palace bowl’ was used in inverted commas by Archibald Brankston in 1938, but may have been an earlier connoisseur’s term. It refers only to imperial blue-and-white bowls of the Chenghua era of this series.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:fruit
Dimensions:Diameter: 15.40 centimetres Height: 7 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain ‘palace bowl’ with underglaze blue decoration. This delicately potted bowl has rounded spreading sides and stands on a tapering foot ring. It is painted outside with three separate fruiting melon plants with round fruit, leafy vines and tendrils. The outer rim, foot and join of foot to body are all emphasized by double blue lines. Inside it is plain. The base carries a six-character Chenghua reign mark in a double ring.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:A similar bowl of the same size, also decorated with melons and vines and with a Chenghua mark, was excavated in the Chenghua strata at the imperial kiln site at Jingdezhen. The design of fruiting melon vines was particularly pertinent to the Chenghua emperor’s preoccupations (see BM 1953.0416.2) as melons and vines are a symbol of fecundity, commonly referred to by the four-character phrase ‘gua die mian mian’ [endlessly spreading as the tendrils of melon vine] – thus expressing a wish for a large family with many descendants.Identical examples of melon-decorated ‘palace bowls’ are in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, the Tianminlou Collection, the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, and the Meiyintang Collection. The term ‘palace bowl’ was used in inverted commas by Archibald Brankston in 1938, but may have been an earlier connoisseur’s term. It refers only to imperial blue-and-white bowls of the Chenghua era of this series.
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