Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1640 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Dimensions:Diameter: 12 centimetres Height: 6.50 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain bowl with underglaze blue decoration. This blue-and-white bowl was recovered from the Hatcher wreck of about 1643. It has a poorly written Chenghua mark in a double ring inside and outside 喜 ‘xi’ characters, meaning happiness, and the svastika-shaped character ‘wan’, meaning all that is positive and good.
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![图片[1]-bowl BM-1985-1119.34-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00262120_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-bowl BM-1985-1119.34-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_01007156_001.jpg)
![图片[3]-bowl BM-1985-1119.34-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_01007164_001.jpg)
![图片[4]-bowl BM-1985-1119.34-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_01007168_001.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Poor-quality blue-and-white porcelain bowls like this, possibly intended for drinking tea, have been excavated in domestic contexts in China. The tomb of Yang Rugui (1553-1639) and of his wives and concubines contained four blue-and-white bowls of similar quality, some with the character 雅 ‘ya’ [elegant], others with apocryphal Chenghua marks. It is possible that this bowls was also intended for drinking tea.See also BM 1985.1119.33, 32, 29 and 12.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Dimensions:Diameter: 12 centimetres Height: 6.50 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain bowl with underglaze blue decoration. This blue-and-white bowl was recovered from the Hatcher wreck of about 1643. It has a poorly written Chenghua mark in a double ring inside and outside 喜 ‘xi’ characters, meaning happiness, and the svastika-shaped character ‘wan’, meaning all that is positive and good.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Poor-quality blue-and-white porcelain bowls like this, possibly intended for drinking tea, have been excavated in domestic contexts in China. The tomb of Yang Rugui (1553-1639) and of his wives and concubines contained four blue-and-white bowls of similar quality, some with the character 雅 ‘ya’ [elegant], others with apocryphal Chenghua marks. It is possible that this bowls was also intended for drinking tea.See also BM 1985.1119.33, 32, 29 and 12.
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