Dish with sprays of pomegranate flowers and fruit in underglaze blue, Xuande reign, 1426-1435

Dish with sprays of pomegranate flowers and fruit in underglaze blue, Xuande reign, 1426-1435

• Image Number: K1B007443N000000000PAE
• Dynasty: Ming dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Material: Mineral/ceramic/porcelain
• Description:
  Skim mouth, round lip, shallow wall, flat bottom, short circle foot. The center of the plate is decorated with a broken pomegranate, the inner wall is painted with peach fruit, lychee, loquat, persimmon and other broken fruit, the outer wall is painted with four lotus flowers, the inner and outer walls are decorated with ten green lines, the fetal bone is slightly thick, the bottom is exposed and the body is not glazed, the body is firm and delicate, and there are iron spots left by the pad cake when it is burned. Glaze color is green and thick, occasionally with iron brown defects. A line of six character regular script, “Made in Xuande Year of the Ming Dynasty”, is written horizontally in blue and white along the outer wall mouth.