Title, date and medium were taken from label written in 2007 by Jennifer Casler Price, Curator for Asian and Non-Western Art at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas

Heavily potted, round deep dish. Rests on a raised, unglazed base rim showing a reddish body. Rim is foliated. Interior is decorated with a central round peony blossom, encircled by a key fret border, a scrolling blossom border in the cavetto with leafy lotus blossoms alternating with chrysanthemum blossoms and on the flat rim a continuous classic scroll motif. Separations between each area are with molded raised foliate border, imitating the exterior rim. The exterior is with key fret border on the top rim and repeated petal lappets with double borders enclosing a lotus leaf. This is an example of an underglazing copper red piece with the glaze of off-white color called “egg white” glaze.

Appears to date from either late Yuan (1280-1368) or early Ming (1368-1644). Yuan was short and it is often difficult to assign a piece to this periods with certainty. Heavily potted pieces are more representative of the Yuan period as is the 3D rendering of the peony. The separation of the lappets on the exterior is also indicative of Yuan. The painting of the scroll and the style of the lotus blossom is the cavetto and the evenness of the red color are more often found in early Ming pieces.

This object has the following keywords:

• Asian
• Chinese
• Decorative Art

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