Title
Blue and white lotus bouquet dish, Ming dynasty, Zhengtong period, China, 1436-1449. Artist: Unknown
Caption
Blue and white lotus bouquet dish, Ming dynasty, Zhengtong period, China, 1436-1449. Dish with everted rim decorated in the centre with a tied bouquet of lotus and reeds and five groups of dots within double line borders. The wide cavetto has four different equi-distant leafy groups with a continuous key fret band beneath the rim. The exterior has a wide band of interrupted lotus scrolls with sparse leaves and flowers. The base is slightly convex and has a heavily undercut foot. The underglaze blue is of almost black colour.
Bath (England), The Museum of East Asian Art
Date
1436
Credit line
Photo12/Heritage Images
Reference
HRM19B73_344
Model release
No
License type
Rights managed
Available size
18,0Mb (504,4Kb) / 7,3in x 9,6in / 2187 x 2871 (300dpi)