Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1600-1620 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, moulded, underglazed,
Subjects:insect fruit
Dimensions:Diameter: 14.20 centimetres Height: 5 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain shallow bowl with ‘kraak’-type underglaze blue decoration. The bowl has rounded sides, a flattened rim with an upturned lobed edge and a rough tapering foot through which a hole has been bored. In the centre a roundel shows a cricket with highly stylized rocks and plants. In the well are eight alternating panels with cartouches containing opposing pairs of flowering and fruiting plants and with ribbons; the panelled rim is decorated with ‘ruyi’, flowering and fruiting plants and diaper. The outside shows opposing pairs of large and small panels and the rim has three flower scrolls. The base is glazed.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Such shallow bowls are listed in Dutch inventories as ‘klapmuts’, because when held upside-down their shape resembles that of a type of hat with an upturned brim. Similar but larger bowls, with a central design of an insect and other motifs, have been found among the cargo of the Witte Leeuw of 1613 (see BM 1921.1107.1).
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, moulded, underglazed,
Subjects:insect fruit
Dimensions:Diameter: 14.20 centimetres Height: 5 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain shallow bowl with ‘kraak’-type underglaze blue decoration. The bowl has rounded sides, a flattened rim with an upturned lobed edge and a rough tapering foot through which a hole has been bored. In the centre a roundel shows a cricket with highly stylized rocks and plants. In the well are eight alternating panels with cartouches containing opposing pairs of flowering and fruiting plants and with ribbons; the panelled rim is decorated with ‘ruyi’, flowering and fruiting plants and diaper. The outside shows opposing pairs of large and small panels and the rim has three flower scrolls. The base is glazed.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Such shallow bowls are listed in Dutch inventories as ‘klapmuts’, because when held upside-down their shape resembles that of a type of hat with an upturned brim. Similar but larger bowls, with a central design of an insect and other motifs, have been found among the cargo of the Witte Leeuw of 1613 (see BM 1921.1107.1).
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