Bowl with Lotus Scrolls (1500s): Art, History and Details

Bowl with Lotus Scrolls (1500s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Bowl such as this, with kinrande (gold-engraved) decoration over monochrome enamels, may have been made originally for export to Japan. On the base of this bowl are an underglaze blue inscription, reading "Fine vessel for the rich and honorable (fugui jiaqi)," as well as a modern registration mark "PDF A552" to indicate that it was formerly in the Sir Percival David collection in London. A similar kinrande bowl can be found in the Percival David Foundation, PDF A549.

Object facts

• Title: Bowl with Lotus Scrolls
• Date: 1500s
• Culture: China, Jiangxi Province, Jingdezhen kilns, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: porcelain with burnished and engraved gold (kinrande) decoration on green overglaze enamel
• Dimensions: Diameter: 6.4 x 12.1 cm (2 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.); Overall: 6.1 cm (2 3/8 in.)
• Collection: China - Ming Dynasty
• Department: Chinese Art
• Accession number: 1989.297

Collection credit

Bequest of Mrs. Severance A. Millikin

Further reading listed by the museum

• The Arts of the Ming Dynasty: Catalogue of an Exhibition Organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain and the Oriental Ceramic Society, November 15th to December 14th 1957. London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1957.
• Sotheby's, London. Important Chinese Ceramics. October 15, 1968.
• Catalogue of the Severance and Greta Millikin Collection. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1990.

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