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A TALL FOOTED BOWL WITH POLYCHROME ENAMEL A DEEP BOWL WITH POLYCHROME ENAMEL DECORATION
DECORATION Le dynasty, 16th century, the decoration possibly later
Le dynasty, 15th/16th century The curving walls painted in overglaze iron red, green and yellow
Outlined in iron red and highlighted in green and yellow enamels enamels with a diagonal trellis pattern separating three cusped
forming a stylized flower and leaf spray band above jeweled lotus reserves of birds in different poses set between a narrow broken
petals on the exterior walls and tall foot, the flared interior rim and well diaper band and a wider jeweled lappet band, an unglazed firing ring
similarly painted with a broken diaper band, striping and a leafy branch centering the floor of the well, the foot and recessed base also left
surrounded by an unglazed firing ring on the otherwise glazed surface, unglazed.
the deeply recessed foot area on the exterior painted with brown 5 1/4in (13.5cm) diameter
wash. 4 1/4in (11cm) high
4 3/4in (12cm) diameter
3in (7.5cm) high $2,000 - 3,000

$1,000 - 1,500 Published
James H. Brow and Anh Hoang Brow, ‘Vietnamese Ceramics: A Ten
Published Thousand Year Continuum,’ Arts of Asia, March-April 2004, p.93, no.
James H. Brow and Anh Hoang Brow, ‘Vietnamese Ceramics: A Ten 34
Thousand Year Continuum,’ Arts of Asia, March-April 2004, p.93, no.
34. A similarly decorated polychrome enameled beaker with reddish-
brown staining to the crazed glaze layer, accession number 2002.750,
For a footed bowl in the Freer Gallery of art, painted in underglaze in the collection of the see the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is listed
blue with similar flower heads and also with decoration applied onto in their web site under Vietnam, p. 5, as 16th century, decoration
the exterior surface of the foot, see Louise Allison Court, ‘Vietnamese possibly later.
Ceramics in Japanese Contexts,’ included in John Stevenson and
John Guy, Vietnamese Ceramics: A Separate Tradition, 1997, p. 70,
fig. 6.

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