Small washer with stylized flowers in tian-ts’ai colors outside and Sanskrit characters in blue and white inside, Ch’eng-hua reign (1465-1487), Ming dynasty

Small washer with stylized flowers in tian-ts’ai colors outside and Sanskrit characters in blue and white inside, Ch’eng-hua reign (1465-1487), Ming dynasty

• Image Number: K1B002997N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Ming dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: water vessels
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  The mouth shall be closed, with round abdomen, shallow curved wall, flat bottom and shallow circle foot. A cross pestle is painted on the blue and white flowers in the center of the bottom of the vessel, with a circle of lotus petal patterns around it. Each of them is filled with a Sanskrit character, a total of nine characters. The outer opening of the utensil is along two green lines, and the abdominal wall outlines four flowers with blue and white flowers. The flower core is dotted with red colored stamens, and the pedicel stems are dyed with lavender and lined with green leaves. A blue thread at the bottom of the instrument. The blue and white book on the bottom of the vessel is a six character regular script with a double box “Ming Dynasty Chenghua Year System”.