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bowl

• Object type

  • bowl

• Museum number

  PDF,A.603

• Description

  Lobed porcelain bowl with flattened sides. Underglaze blue with a dragon and clouds roundel in centre and outside with dragons in each lobe. Parallel blue lines around inner and outer rim. There is an inscription on the base.

• Culture/period

  • Xuande
  • Ming dynasty

• Date

  • 1426-1435

• Production place

  • Made in: Jingdezhen
  • (Asia,China,Jiangxi (province),Jingdezhen)

• Materials

  • porcelain

• Technique

  • underglazed

• Dimensions

  • Height: 38 millimetres
  • Diameter: 162 millimetres

• Inscriptions

  • • Inscription Type

      mark

    • Inscription Language

      Chinese

    • Inscription Comment

      Six-character Xuande mark in a double ring in underglaze blue on the base

• Curator's comments

  Published PDF date : Ming Xuande 1426-1435Room 95 label text:

  PDF A603

  Fluted brush-washer

  
  Potters invented this fluted shape in response to a court order in the Xuande era. The brush-washer is decorated with a dragon amid clouds in a central roundel inside and with octofoil cartouches framing dragons in clouds in the ten lobes outside. It carries a Xuande mark on its base.

  
  Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue decoration
  Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮
  Ming dynasty, Xuande mark and period, AD 1426–35

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• Bibliography

  • Medley 1975 Monochrome pl. 94
  • Medley 1976 p.35, no.A603
  • Pierson 2004 p.52, no.A603
  • Pierson 2004A pp 56-57, no.20

• Location

  On display: G95/dc59/s4

• Acquisition name

  • On loan from: Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art

• Department

  Asia

• Registration number

  PDF,A.603