Bowl
Its unusual appearance could be due to misfiring in the kiln. The bowl is decorated with bats and lotus flowers. Bats are an emblem of happiness but they should appear to be flying towards the observer for this to happen and not away from them.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 50/1931/3
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Household objects
- Collection Area Region
- E
- Material
- porcelainenamel
- Common Name
- bowl
- Simple Name
- bowl
- Period Classification
- Ch’ing
- Production Town
- unk
- Production County
- unk
- Production Country
- China, People's Republic of
- Production Person Surname
- unk
- Production Year Low
- 1862
- Production Year High
- 1874
