Bowl with underglaze-bule illustration of court ladies in a garden setting, Ming dynasty, Xuande reign, 1426-1435

Bowl with underglaze-bule illustration of court ladies in a garden setting, Ming dynasty, Xuande reign, 1426-1435

• Image Number: K1B004545N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Ming dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  Round mouth, arc wall, short circle foot bowl, slightly protruding foot insole. The inside of the device is plain and free of lines. It is pasted with a yellow label of the Qing Dynasty, and the signature is written in regular script with “two pieces of first-class moral propaganda money like this”; The outer wall of the utensil depicts four groups of figures in front of the fence with blue and white flowers. The gestures are taken from the poems of the Tang Dynasty and the Yuefu of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. In order, they are “holding the water and the moon in hand”, “loving the moon and sleeping late at night”, “getting dressed with flowers”, and “cherishing the flowers and getting up early in spring”; The outer wall of the foot has a circle of grass patterns, and the inside of the foot has two lines of regular script of “Xuande Year of the Ming Dynasty”. In the early Ming Dynasty, the patterns of official vessels were often based on poetry, and the samples of their manuscripts might also be participated in by the painters of the palace painting academy.