Bowl with luanbai glaze. Porcelain with moulded and incised decoration and luanbai glaze. Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮. Yuan dynasty, AD 1280–1368. Percival David Foundation of Chinese Ar. PDF A454. British Museum © Trustees of the British Museum

Shufu porcelain bowl. The bowl has a white body and blue-toned glaze. There is a lotus scroll moulded on the interior, and a flower medallion in the centre of the interior. There is a mark on the interior wall. Height: 95 mm. Diameter: 210 mm

This porcelain bowl is covered with an opaque blue-tinged glaze, except for the base. Inside is a moulded design of lotus scrolls. In the well is a mark which reads 樞府 (shufu ‘Privy Council’). The invention of this thick egg-white glaze was important for the development of blue-and-white porcelain at Jingdezhen.

Bibliographic reference: Medley, Margaret, Volume 7: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, 7 of 12, Tokyo, Kodansha ltd, 1975