Zhangzhou kom op voetring, spreidende geschulpte rand. Bedekt met een dikke, onregelmatig dekkende grijs-witte glazuur. Versierd in onderglazuur blauw met een doorlopende voorstelling van bomen, vogels, rotsen, insecten, bloeiende planten, een hert en meerdere maantjes, deels binnen vier grote gelobde vakken. Aan de binnenzijde rond de rand een band met gestileerde ui-vormige motieven. Binnenin op de bodem een grote lotusplant en wolkmotieven in een dubbele cirkel. De onderkant van de bodem is geglazuurd met veel aangebakken ovenzand. De kom is bij het bakken wat scheef getrokken. Deze kom is in diverse opzichten opmerkelijk. Ten eerste zijn kommen van dit formaat relatief zeldzaam binnen de Zhangzhou produktie. Ten tweede is de randversiering met ui-(of vrucht?) vormige motieven ongebruikelijk en een vergelijkbaar motief lijkt in de literatuur niet gedocumenteerd te zijn. Ten derde is de onderbreking van de doorlopende landschapsvoorstelling door de vier vakken iets wat zeer ongewoon is. Meestal is de ruimte tussen de vakken met een geometrisch of andere patroon opgevuld en krijgen ze daardoor de funktie van vensters. Hier lijken de verdelingen meer bedoeld te zijn om de scene...
Zhangzhou bowl on footring, spreading scalloped rim. Covered with a thick, irregular greyish-white glaze. Decorated in underglaze blue with a continuous representation of trees, birds, rocks, insects, flowering plants, a deer and several moons, partly contained within four large lobed panels. On the inside of the rim a band with stylised onion-shaped motifs. Inside on the base a large lotus plant and cloud motifs in a double circle. Considerable kiln-sand adhering to the glazed base. The bowl warped slightly during the firing process. This bowl is remarkable. Firstly, bowls of this size are rare in Zhangzhou ware; secondly, its rim decoration with onion(or fruit?)-shaped motifs is also rare and apparently no comparable design has been documented in the literature; thirdly, the manner in which the continuous landscape representation is broken up into four parts is also extremely rare. Usually the space between the panels is filled with a geometric (or other) pattern thereby attributing to them the function of a window. Evidently, the divisions here are intended to create some sort of rhythm in the scene. The various elements of this loosely painted representation conform to earl...
Swatow bowl on footring, spreading scalloped rim. Covered with a thick, irregular greyish-white glaze. Decorated in underglaze blue with a continuous representation of trees, birds, rocks, insects, flowering plants, a deer and several moons, partly contained within four large lobed panels. On the inside of the rim a band with stylised onion-shaped motifs. Inside on the base a large lotus plant and cloud motifs in a double circle. Considerable kiln-sand adhering to the glazed base. The bowl warped slightly during the firing process. This bowl is remarkable. Firstly, bowls of this size are rare in the Swatow assortment; secondly, its rim decoration with onion(or fruit?)-shaped motifs is also rare and apparently no comparable design has been documented in the literature; thirdly, the manner in which the continuous landscape representation is broken up into four parts is also extremely rare. Usually the space between the panels is filled with a geometric (or other) pattern thereby attributing to them the function of a window. Evidently, the divisions here are intended to create some sort of rhythm in the scene. The various elements of this loosely painted representation conform to ...
