Bowl with underglaze-blue decoration of dragons and phoenixes among flowers, Hsuan-te reign (1426-1435), Ming dynasty-China Archive

Image Number: C1B002277N000000000PAE
Dynasty: Ming dynasty
Category: Ceramics
Function: Food utensil
Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
Description:
It has a wide mouth, a deep wall, a flat bottom, an inward folding bottom (also known as a folding waist bowl), and a short circle foot. This is one of the bowls, except for the cover. Double dragon cloud pattern is painted on the mural, and the lotus petal pattern on the bottom edge is one circle. Because the bottom edge is folded inward, the lotus petal can only be seen on the upper half, and the inner wall is pure white without lines. Sixteen green lines are added between the patterns on the mouth of the bowl and the edge of the foot. The celadon glaze is even deep, with brown green spots in the deep, and bubbles are densely distributed on the glaze surface. The white glaze at the accumulated glaze of the round foot and the convex string pattern at the bottom is green. The porcelain body is even thick, the inner bottom of the bowl is slightly concave, the outer bottom is slightly convex, and the body is fine and white. The inner bottom is in regular script of two lines and six characters, with double circles.