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13 BOWL The bowl has an elegant shape, with deep rounded sides and an everted
rim. It stands on a rather high, inward tapering foot. On the outside, on a
Jingdezhen porcelain, decorated yellow ground, are two green dragons in profile among ruyi clouds, chas-
with overglaze enamels ing after flaming pearls.
H 10.0 cm, Dia. 21.3 cm
Ming dynasty, Zhengde (1506–1521) To create this design, a sophisticated technique was involved: First
reign the design of the dragon was incised into the body, which was not yet
Six-character Zhengde mark and fired, and then the area of the decoration was covered with wax. The piece
of the period was then glazed and fired. During firing the wax burnt off and left the
Inv.-No. NO 1118, on loan from dragon design in biscuit. Green enamel was applied to the biscuit, and
the OKS the piece was fired again, this time at a lower temperature.
PROVENANCE: Acquired by Nanne
Ottema from C. T. Loo in 1933. Loo The combination of overglaze yellow and green enamels first
Ching Tsai (1880–1957) was the occurred in the Yongle period at the imperial kilns in Jingdezhen and
leading dealer for Chinese art in the became fashionable under the Zhengde emperor.
Western world. He first carried out
his business from Paris and later from Ref.: A comparable bowl is in the Koger Collection: Ayers 1985, p. 97, pl. 73; Harrison-Hall 2001,
New York. See Davids and Jellinek pp. 206–207, no. 8:31. For a similar bowl with a Jiajing mark and of the period: Krahl 1994, vol. 2, pp. 80–81,
2011, p. 300 no. 696.
Publ.: Harrisson 1985, p. 56, no. 53;
Borstlap, Terlouw and Hidding 1993,
p. 20; Ströber 2011, pp. 54–55, no. 14
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