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China
Bowl 1600
Porcelain painted in underglaze blue | 5.1 x 10.2 cm (whole object) | RCIN 8933
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A circular Chinese blue-and-white porcelain bowl, thinly potted, with rounded sides and splayed rim, with bracketlobed edge, low foot and glazed base.
Inside, painted in the centre, a roundel with a bird on a rock by a flowering plant, and round the sides, four radiating panels with flower sprays in lobed quatrefoil panels, with monster masks at the rim and pendent tassels in narrow panels between; the outside painted in sketchy style with four quatrefoils between narrow panels and two plant sprays round the rim.
Text adapted from Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen: Volume I. -
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Medium and techniques
Porcelain painted in underglaze blue
Measurements
5.1 x 10.2 cm (whole object)
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