bowl
- Museum number
- PDF.402
- Description
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Porcelain bowl with straight rim. The bowl has a white body with a blue tinged glaze. There is an incised double lotus-petal panel on the exterior, and an 'anhua' slip lotus scroll under the glaze on the interior.
- Production date
- 1426-1435
- Dimensions
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Height: 103 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Published PDF date : Ming Xuande 1426-1435
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Room 95 label text:
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Bowl with lotus decoration
Outside this bowl is incised with overlapping lotus petals. Inside it is decorated with an 'anhua' (hidden) design of a lotus scroll. Lotus flowers are an emblem of purity in China. The base of this bowl has a six-character Xuande reign mark in underglaze cobalt-blue. The bowl has a white body with a blue-tinged transparent glaze
Porcelain with incised, anhua decoration, underglaze cobalt-blue mark and transparent glaze
Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮
Ming dynasty, Xuande mark and period, AD 1426–35
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白釉蓮花紋碗
此碗白胎,施微微閃青的透明釉,外壁刻劃重疊蓮瓣紋,內壁飾暗花蓮紋。蓮花在中國被視為純潔的象徵。外底署“大明宣德年制”六字青花款。
瓷器,劃花及暗花,青花款,透明釉
江西省景德鎮
明代,宣德,宣德款,1426-1435年
- Location
- On display (G95/dc42/sh4)
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- PDF.402