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. Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Ar. PDF A455. British Museum © Trustees ofthe British Museum

Height: 49 mm. Diameter: 123 mm. Shufu porcelain bowl. The bowl has a white body and blue-toned glaze. There is a floral scroll incised on the interior. There is a mark in the centre of the interior. The base is unglazed.

This porcelain bowl is covered with an opaque blue-tinged glaze, except for the base. Inside is a moulded design of floral 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

Scott, Rosemary, Imperial Taste - Chinese Ceramics from the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, 1989

Pierson, Stacey, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art: A Guide to the Collection, London, SOAS, Univeristy of London, 2002

Scott, Rosemary, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art: A Guide to the Collection, London, SAOS, Univeristy of London, 1989