15th Century Blue and White
Bowl
Early Ming
15 centimeters diameter, 6 centimeters
height
Fine condition
| Lotus pond scene, a classic early Ming
design. The interior shows a lotus pond with a central lotus plant
surrounded by sprigs of stonewort, eel-grass, and several other
unidentified water plants. Classic scroll border at the
lip.
The exterior shows two pair of ducks divided
by two large lotus plants, surrounded with the same water plants as the interior,
but now including water-chestnut and duckweed. Early Ming, possibly
Interregnum
period. |
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image.
| Note:
|
The style of the classic scroll
border of early Ming and the earlier Yuan dynasty is
of a simpler form. Later reigns seemed to crowd the design with a more
compact version versus the delicate, open, almost calligraphic style seen
here. |
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