Bowl with foliated rim and underglaze-blue decoration of sprays of flowers and fruits, Hsuan-te reign (1426-1435), Ming dynasty

Bowl with foliated rim and underglaze-blue decoration of sprays of flowers and fruits, Hsuan-te reign (1426-1435), Ming dynasty

• Image Number: K1B004849N000000000PAD
• Dynasty: Ming dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Food utensil
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  Open, six petal sunflower style, slanting straight wall, flat bottom, short circle foot. The inner opening of the utensil is decorated with a circle of broken branches and flowers, with two green lines on the upper and lower sides. The inner wall is painted with three broken branches and lotus flowers, one peony, one chrysanthemum, and one rose respectively. The broken branches and peaches in the heart of the utensil are decorated with flowers, plus three green lines. The outer wall is decorated with two layers of patterns, slightly larger at the top and smaller at the bottom. The upper layer consists of fruits such as broken peach, lychee, grape, pomegranate, loquat and persimmon, and the lower layer consists of flowers such as broken chrysanthemum, camellia, begonia, peony, rose and lotus. The foot edge is decorated with grass, and four green lines are added at the mouth edge and above and below the foot. The fetal bone is even and thin, the blue and white flowers are deep and colorful, and the white glaze is slightly green. The feet are exposed with thin white bodies, with iron spots between them, and the body glaze line is light orange. The blue and white book “Xuande Year of the Ming Dynasty” is in regular script with two lines and six characters, plus double circles.