Object Description
A finely modelled glazed ceramic bowl from the Chinese Kangxi Period, a golden age for blue and white ceramics. The porcelain bowl appears decorated with a beautiful floral design, comprising chrysanthemum flowers, painted in rich cobalt blue. The bowl has been recovered from the Blue Chrysanthemum Shipwreck.
The samples recovered from the Blue Chrysanthemum shipwreck are exclusively Ancient Chinese ceramics. The wares are predominately Kangxi Period blue and white porcelain, although multi-coloured ceramics and utilitarian wares are also in evidence in the cargo. The blue and white wares are assessed by experts to be excellent examples of early Chinese Kangxi blue and white ceramic, produced in the famous porcelain centre of Jingdezhen in the Jiangsu Province. Jingdezhen kilns made porcelain over two millennia, since the Han Dynasty period, reaching their technical excellence during the early Qing Dynasty. The very high quality cobalt blue colouring seen here is distinctive of the Kangxi Period porcelains, also referred to as ‘gem blue’ or ‘kingfisher blue’.
Period: Kangxi Period, late 17th century AD. The shipwreck has been recovered in the 90’s.