Title
Bowl with floral decoration
Year/Period
Ming dynasty, late 16th to early 17th century
Region
Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 7.1 x 13.4 x 12.8 cm
Accession No.
2020-00346
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Dr Kenson Kwok
This bowl is freely painted on the exterior with underglaze cobalt-blue floral scrolls set against a white background, while the interior is decorated with stylised lotus plants reserved against a sea of blue. Such bowls, produced at the popular kilns (minyao 民窑) in Jingdezhen, were among the types of ceramics cargo carried by European ships in the late Ming dynasty. Similar bowls have been recovered from the wrecks of the Witte Leeuw (a Dutch East Indian Company ship which foundered in 1613) and the San Diego, a Spanish vessel that sank in 1600.
