Bowl with luanbai glaze. Porcelain with moulded and incised decoration and luanbai glaze. Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, Yuan dynasty, AD 1280–1368. Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, 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