Apr 20, 2018
Apr 20, 2018
Apr 20, 2018

Bowl with Birds and Flowers

Bowl with Birds and Flowers

1644–61

Porcelain with incised and sancai (3-color) enamel decoration

Diameter: 17.5 cm (6 7/8 in.); Overall: 9.2 cm (3 5/8 in.)

Severance and Greta Millikin Collection 1964.227

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This porcelain bowl is considered to have been made in the "Transitional period," a term used to define the period between about 1620 and 1683 when official kilns in Jingdezhen were no longer under imperial supervision due to the transition from the Ming to the Qing dynasties.

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