Chinese Ming Dynasty Blue & White Porcelain Bowl (Hongzhi)

Chinese Ming Dynasty Blue & White Porcelain Bowl (Hongzhi)

This blue and white porcelain bowl with flared rim was made during the late 15th - early 16th century (Hongzhi reign 1488 – 1505). The outer wall is decorated in underglaze blue with a honeycomb pattern. The central decoration is loosely based on a vajra (Buddhist sceptre) with various other decorations around the inner wall. It is coated in a finely-crackled glaze.

Diameter 14.5 cm. Condition is very good: there is a hairline to the rim that penetrates the body although it does follow the crackle of the glaze, but there is no repair or restoration.

For reference: very similar examples are illustrated and described in the book “Lost at Sea” about the “Lena Shoal” wreck that is dated to c. 1480 – 1490. The bowl we are offering here is not from a shipwreck.

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