Dish with underglaze-blue illustration of pine, bamboo, and plum and court ladies on a night excursion, Hsuan-te reign (1426-1435), Ming dynasty

Dish with underglaze-blue illustration of pine, bamboo, and plum and court ladies on a night excursion, Hsuan-te reign (1426-1435), Ming dynasty

• Image Number: K1B003123N000000000PAB
• 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 pattern on the outer wall is a garden scene. The ladies are walking in it by candlelight. The foot circle is decorated with curly grass patterns for a week, and the mouth and foot are decorated with six green lines. The fetal bone is even and thin, the disc bottom is concave and convex, the blue and white flowers are beautiful, and the ring foot is exposed to the fetus, which is firm and delicate. The blue and white book “made in Xuande Year of the Ming Dynasty” is in regular script with two lines and six characters, plus double circles.