Physical description
Blue and white porcelain with brown exterior. Printed in blue on the inside and in colours on the outside, within medallions over a brown glaze. Mark: a lozenge (Fang-Shêng) in blue. The outside is covered with a light dead-leaf brown or café-au-lait glaze over which have been added four medallions painted alternatively with a long-legged bird and sprays of flowers in crimson, white and green enamel. The inside is painted in underglaze blue with a formal design of six lotus-petal compartments filled with flowers radiating with stems between them, about a central lotus flower. Overdecorated in England, probably Staffordshire, early 18th century.
Place of Origin
China (made)
England (decorated)
Date
1662-1722 (made)
Artist/maker
Unknown
Materials and Techniques
Porcelain decorated in underglaze blue and a brown exterior glaze
Marks and inscriptions
Mark: a lozenge (Fang-Shêng)
Dimensions
Height: 7.3 cm, Diameter: 6.125 cm
Descriptive line
Bowl, blue and white porcelain with brown exterior and lotus-flower design, Chinese, 1662-1722
Production Note
from label
Materials
Porcelain
Subjects depicted
Birds; Lotus flowers
Categories
Porcelain; Household objects
Collection
East Asia Collection