Dish with underglaze-blue illustration of the Three Friends of Winter and court ladies writing poetry on plantain leaves, Ming dynasty, Xuande reign, 1426~1435

Dish with underglaze-blue illustration of the Three Friends of Winter and court ladies writing poetry on plantain leaves, Ming dynasty, Xuande reign, 1426~1435

• Image Number: K1B003124N000000000PAI
• Dynasty: Ming dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  Low mouth, arc shallow wall, flat bottom, slightly concave and convex bottom, short circle foot. The center is painted with pine, bamboo and plum trees, and decorated with ganoderma lucidum, lake stone, grass pattern and two green lines. The outer wall is painted with garden scenery, a beautiful lady writes poems on banana leaves and flies, and eight green lines are decorated between the inner and outer feet. The other two maids, a handful of inkstone waitresses, a sincere fan against butterflies, and a small civet slave lying on the lake stone. The glaze color is thick and varied, occasionally with brown green defects, and the white glaze is green. The fetal bone is even and thin, the ring foot is exposed to the fetus, and the fetus is white, firm and fine. The blue and white book “Xuande Year of the Ming Dynasty” is in regular script with two lines and six characters, plus double circles.