Ming yongle Sweet dark craft carved lotus bian wen bowl

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yongle long white porcelain body lightsome, white enamel jade, such as fat, has the reputation of “sweet white”. Yongle emperor extremely preference, according to Ming shi lu, emperor taizong: a memoir, “, four year of yongle (1406), October is not “and” teeth into the jade bowl, not, life does not give money sent also. “Ministers Zheng Ci yue:” the Chinese chinaware me day and night, clean, jade-like stone, very suitable for heart, don’t need this also. ‘” the so-called “pure element but jade-like stone,” shall refer to such sweet white porcelain.
this bowl thin carcass, wide mouth, arc wall deep abdomen, ring foot. Full-bodied sweet white glaze, dark moment lotus-shaped bowl lines, outside the mouth along the engraved lines a week back, bowl of outer wall carved bound of snow lotus flower grain plain and neat, with thin wall, more gentle sweet net, more subtle sweet white glazed porcelain.