Large bowl with floral scroll

Object Details

• Description

  Blue and white porcelain bowl (Clay: fine white porcelain with iron wash fired red on unglazed base.) Glaze: colorless, but has a semi-opaque quality. Decoration in underglaze cobalt blue. Some of the blue color is hazy. On the exterior; around the footring, a band of keyfret design; above this. lotus lappets with flowers depcited inside the petal outlines; around the belly of the bowl, a scroll of peony flowers and leaves, and around the mouth rim, a wide band oultine with blue circles inside of which is a scroll with lingzhi fungus. On the interior: in the well of the bowl, a bifurcated stem that supports four peony blossoms. To the side of the stem, a bud appears. The cavetto of the bowl is decorated with a scroll of lotus flowers. Above this, the inside of the mouth has a band identical to that on the outside of the bowl. The cobalt used has a muted blue color and the glaze is partially opacified, also dimming the color.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Luxury and Luminosity: Visual Culture and the Ming Court (July 3, 2004 to June 26, 2005)

  Chinese Ceramics (March 15, 1982 to July 10, 1986)

  Chinese Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to September 4, 1980)

  Chinese Art (January 1, 1963 to March 6, 1981)

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Ceramics (March 7, 1957 to January 1, 1963)

  Centennial Exhibition, Gallery 13 (November 10, 1955 to March 1, 1957)

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Art, 1953 (May 26, 1953 to September 15, 1953)

  Stone Sculpture, Buddhist Bronze, and Chinese Painting (May 2, 1923 to February 25, 1956)

• Origin

  Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Date

  1300s

• Place

  China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen

• Topic

  Porcelain, Art, Peony, Chinese Art, Hongwu reign (1368 - 1398), Ceramics, Jingdezhen ware, Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644), Lotus

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)