Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1522-1540 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:dragon
Dimensions:Diameter: 28.50 centimetres Height: 11 centimetres
Description:
Large porcelain bowl with underglaze blue decoration. This bowl has rounded lobed sides and a flaring rim with bracket-lobed edge. From each peak of the bracket to the top of the straight foot is a vertical rib. A scrolling dragon with two front legs and no claws, eating a leafy scroll, is depicted inside a roundel, while the rim is decorated with a border of lotus flowers and buds. Between the ribs on the outside are eight panels with fruit and flowers in medallions, and with scroll work at each corner and a diaper border above. The base is gritty and bears a four-character mark 大 明 年 造 ‘Da Ming nian zao’ [Made in the Ming dynasty].
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![图片[1]-bowl(lobed) BM-1945-0725.2-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00266519_001.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:A similar bowl with a Jiajing mark (1522-66) is in the Amaral Cobral Collection. Maria Antonia Pinto de Matos also mentions another Jiajing reign marked example in the Museu National da Arte Antiga. A third example is in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:dragon
Dimensions:Diameter: 28.50 centimetres Height: 11 centimetres
Description:
Large porcelain bowl with underglaze blue decoration. This bowl has rounded lobed sides and a flaring rim with bracket-lobed edge. From each peak of the bracket to the top of the straight foot is a vertical rib. A scrolling dragon with two front legs and no claws, eating a leafy scroll, is depicted inside a roundel, while the rim is decorated with a border of lotus flowers and buds. Between the ribs on the outside are eight panels with fruit and flowers in medallions, and with scroll work at each corner and a diaper border above. The base is gritty and bears a four-character mark 大 明 年 造 ‘Da Ming nian zao’ [Made in the Ming dynasty].
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:A similar bowl with a Jiajing mark (1522-66) is in the Amaral Cobral Collection. Maria Antonia Pinto de Matos also mentions another Jiajing reign marked example in the Museu National da Arte Antiga. A third example is in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul.
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