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22 avril 2012

Bowl with lotus flowers. Ming dynasty, Xuande mark and period, AD 1426–35

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Bowl with lotus flowers.  Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue decoration. Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮. Ming dynasty, Xuande mark and period, AD 1426–35. Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art.  PDF.682. AN382338001. British Museum. Copyright SOAS 

Porcelain bowl with rounded sides, everted mouthrim and wide foot. There are scrolling lotus flowers and leaves between a band of squared spirals at the mouthrim, a band of separated lotus flowers, classic scrolls around the foot, a roundel in the centre of the interior with a single lotus flower head and scrolling leaves, and bands of lotus flowers and leaves around the cavetto. There is a mark on the base. Height: 80 millimetres. Diameter: 171 millimetres

The Xuande emperor, despite reigning for just ten years, commissioned an extraordinary variety of forms and patterns from the imperial kilns at Jingdezhen. This bowl has an underglaze blue Xuande mark on the base.

Bibliographic reference:  - Hobsob, Robert L, A Catalogue of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain in the Collection of Sir Percival David Bt., F.S.A., London, The Stourton Press, 1934

Medley, Margaret, Illustrated Catalogue of Underglaze Blue and Copper Red Decorated Porcelains, London, University of London, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1976

Pierson, Stacey, Illustrated Catalogue of Underglaze Blue and Copper Red Decorated Porcelains in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, University of London, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, 2004

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