Blue-and-white Bowl with Chrysanthemum-petal Pattern

The name “chicken heart bowl” indicates a small bowl with a flared-mouth and a narrow foot. The bowl is covered with designs in blue-and-white. In the center are disconnected sprays of loquat design encircled by the double rings. The interior is decorated with winding stem pattern and a wave pattern near the mouth while the exterior is glazed with a chrysanthemum-petal pattern and at the rim a rectangular spiral pattern. All the fields of decorations are separated by thin blue-and-white lines. The foot-ring is glazed white with no reign mark.
The petal pattern is the characteristic ornamentation in the Yongle and Xuande periods. As the main ornamentation, they are commonly painted with other floral patterns. This one has thirty-two chrysanthemum petals on the exterior. Slender and well-disposed, those petals show a radial pattern from the foot-ring to the mouth. The bowl boasts organized but sprightly patterns and slight variations in the blue color.