Ming xuande Blue and white waves sea grain footed cup

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the cup convex section, also called bamboo target cup, cup raised ascend a week, near the best shape of bamboo. Cup compact, outside the mouth along the draw blue ruyi yuntou lines and convex section hollow ruyi yuntou lines, up and down. Cup blue and white sea waves to the outer wall paint, cup body on wheel when the soil is not dry, dark moment sea grain and with blue and white dot eyeball, again on the hanging transparent glaze, the formation of white sea infested Yu Qinghua effect in the waves. Cup insole written in blue and white Sanskrit word “tradition”, it write Sanskrit eight seed word a week, the formation of middle eight leaves school type, meaning the Buddha bless this auspicious implies. Outsole shallow ring foot, blue and white double circle regular script six jintong kiln. Blue and white hair color is deep, dark fine carved lines, which lies to detail.
in the Ming dynasty yongle xuande period, from zheng he’s seven expeditions to the western seas, overseas and domestic has a packet of Tibet
the great buddhist activities, so have such combined with blubber and Sanskrit kiln works appeared. Approximate patients see the museum collection, published in the Ming dynasty xuande kiln extracts show focus “, 1998, pp. 200-201, chart 73 (figure 1). And another with decorative light tracing sea waves of the same footed cup category, see the museum collection, published in the Ming dynasty xuande kiln extracts show focus “, 1998, pp. 202-203, 74 chart.
wanli period have also fire modeling, decorative pattern is almost the same example, refer to the case of auction at Christie’s in Hong Kong, May 29, 2013, 2247 items, visible to the varieties of pity is expensive.