Stemcup with grape vine in tou-ts’ai colors, Ch’eng-hua reign (1465-1487), Ming dynasty

Stemcup with grape vine in tou-ts’ai colors, Ch’eng-hua reign (1465-1487), Ming dynasty

• Image Number: K1B003547N000000000PAE
• Dynasty: Ming dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: drinking vessel
• Material: Mineral/ceramic/porcelain
• Description:
  Wide mouth, round belly, curved wall, high circle foot. The outer walls are decorated with underglaze blue and white, and then filled with color materials. The belly is painted with twining grapes, showing the three-dimensional sense of grapes in brown and light purple. The branches and leaves are painted with brown and green colors, with yellow colored vines. The mouth edge and the foot ring are decorated with two green lines. The inside is plain white without lines. The six character regular script of “Ming Dynasty Chenghua Year System” in blue and white on the inside of the circle foot has no frame.