Porcelain bowl with underglase cobalt blue decoration
This is one of a group known as 'palace bowls', made at the imperial kilns of Jingdezhen, South East China. Admired for their sophisticated painting style and very fine porcelain bodies, most are decorated with scrolling flowers and leaves, and this bowl includes morning glories, camellias...
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Porcelain bowl with underglase cobalt blue decoration [electronic resource]. |
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| Language: | English |
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between 1465 and 1487.
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SOAS Digital Library.
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This is one of a group known as 'palace bowls', made at the imperial kilns of Jingdezhen, South East China. Admired for their sophisticated painting style and very fine porcelain bodies, most are decorated with scrolling flowers and leaves, and this bowl includes morning glories, camellias, peonies and a chrysanthemum. The painting has been executed with two brushes, one very fine and one wider, using both line drawing and washes, typical of the Chenghua period. A similar style can be seen on the jar in the next entry. Chenghua period porcelains are generally considered the finest of the Ming dynasty and the Percival David collection contains many with the imperial reign mark, Da Ming Chenghua nian zhi, or 'Made in the Chenghua period of the Great Ming dynasty'. (Text by John T Carpenter and Yoshiko Yasumura, from the exhibition catalogue: Objects of instruction : treasures of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Anna Contadini, Editor. London : SOAS, University of London, 2007.) |
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| Language: | English |
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between 1465 and 1487.
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SOAS Digital Library.
REGIONS. FORMATS. ARTE. REAS. ISOAS. IBRITMUS. |