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Jingdezhen kilns

Bowl Decorated with Design of Flowers and Leafy Vines

1400-1432

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Jingdezhen kilns

Bowl Decorated with Design of Flowers and Leafy Vines

1400-1432

Physical Qualities Porcelain with underglaze cobalt decoration, 4 × 8 3/8 in. (10.2 × 21.3 cm.)
Credit Line Julius Levy Memorial Fund
Object Number 1953.207
Iranian decoration may have inspired the flower-and-vine scroll decorating this bowl, but the narrow leaves around its exterior represent a further development of carved and incised designs that originated on Chinese northern white ceramics.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1953; C. K. Chang, Baltimore
Collection installation, "Asia. Artistic Innovation & Exchange", Levy Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art, October 5, 2023-
Frances Klapthor, "Brushwasher," "Diamond of the Month," BMA, 1989.
Frances Klapthor, "Chinese Ceramics," Baltimore: BMA, 1993, no. 74, p. 54.

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