porcelain, glazed and decorated bowl: pale blue glaze with blue decoration. exterior: floral motifs alternate with small shrines around the wall of the bowl a scalloped border above the base ring features small vegetal motifs beneath each shrine. pale double blue line finish outer lip and base ring. inner surface pale blue with double blue lines at lip and base of wall. calligraphic symbol in center of bowl bottom.
Donor:
Estate of Elizabeth Huff
Collection place:
China
Verbatim coll. place:
Asia, China
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Collector:
Elizabeth Huff
Materials:
Glaze (coating by location) and Porcelain (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowls (vessels) and Porcelain (visual works)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
August 5, 1988
Context of use:
household
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
diameter 15.2 centimeters and height 7 centimeters