Jar with crab apple scrolls in underglaze blue, Ming dynasty, Yongle reign, 1403-1424-China Archive

Image Number: K1B014346N000000000PAF
Dynasty: Ming dynasty
Category: Ceramics
Function: Container
Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
Description:
The mouth is rounded and inward folded, with bulging belly, and the feet are turned outward, with a lotus bud and a new lid. The wall around the pot belly is painted with a pattern of flowering crabapple, while the upper and lower sides are decorated with a pattern of upside down lotus petals, and the left foot is painted with five petals and eight flowers. The cover is a three layer umbrella shaped gradually, the inner layer is the smallest blank, the middle is the lotus petal pattern, and the outer and inner cover edges are the Malus rotundus flowers. The bottom is flat in three steps, with the outer sole exposed, white and delicate. The blue and white flowers are very colorful, with brown green crystal defects, and the white glaze is slightly bluish. Although there is no money for the objects, they are almost the same as the Xuande objects in another area of our hospital. It is not recorded in the documents of the Ming Dynasty what this kind of jar was used for. As for the Qing Dynasty, it was often used with other tea utensils. In the painting of Emperor Qianlong’s Snow Scenery and Amusement in the Palace Museum in Beijing, the servants of the Emperor Qianlong were busy cooking Sanqing tea with snow water