Dongxi kiln
Zhangzhou Ware Bowl with Impressed Lotus Leaves Around Exterior
1400-1499
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Dongxi kiln
Zhangzhou Ware Bowl with Impressed Lotus Leaves Around Exterior
1400-1499
Physical Qualities
Porcelain with crackled ivory glaze, metal rim, 8 × 8 in. (20.3 × 20.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Julius Levy Memorial Fund
Object Number
1939.233
Zhangzhou (or Dongkhe) ware with impressed lotus leaves around exterior. Interior bottom decorated with incised design (dragons?), while narrow; vertical lotus leaves molded around exterior side of bowl.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1939; Parke-Bernet Galleries, Whitridge Collection, Sale #142, Nov. 16-18, 1939; William H. Whitridge, Baltimore
'The Whitridge Collection of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain,' Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art,1930, no. 637, p. 122.
Whitridge Collection, NY: Parke-Bernet, 1939, no.
Malcolm F. Farley, 'The White Ware of Fukien and the South China Coast,' Far Eastern Ceramic Bulletin, Sept. 1949, #7, p. 1 ff, and Mar. 1950, #9, p. 51 ff.
