Palace Bowl with Garden Scene

between 1426 and 1430

Chinese

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At the end of the thirteenth century the Mongols established the Yuan Dynasty (1279–1368) and began to patronize the Jingdezhen kilns to the exclusion of all others as they ascribed protective qualities to white porcelain. One outgrowth of cross-cultural contact within the vast Mongol Empire was the creation of blue and white porcelain during the second quarter of the fourteenth century using cobalt imported from Persia. This blue and white palace bowl decorated with a garden scene was produced during the reign of one of China's most artistically gifted and culturally refined emperors.

Title Palace Bowl with Garden Scene

Artwork Date between 1426 and 1430

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Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Chinese

Medium Porcelain with underglaze cobalt and clear glaze

Dimensions Overall: 2 3/4 × 7 5/8 inches (7 × 19.4 cm)

Classification Ceramics

Department Asian Art

Credit Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 43.67

Markings

Inscriptions Inscribed, on convex glazed bottom in blue underglaze: Ta Ming Hsuan Te Nien Chih

Marks Marked, sticker on bottom: George Eumorfopoulos C 116

Provenance

George Eumorfopoulos (London, England). (Walter Hochstadter, New York, New York, USA)

1943-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Catalogue of the George Eumorfopoulos Collection. Sales cat., Sotheby & Co. London, May 28-31, 1940, no. 224.

Bulletin of the DIA 25, no. 3. p. 64 (ill.).

An Exhibition of Blue-Decorated Porcelain of the Ming Dynasty. Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art, Chicago Art Institute. Philadelphia, October 29-December 4, 1949, Chicago, December 21, 1949-February 5, 1950, no. 67, pp. 14, 46 (ill.).

University Liggett Antiques Show. Exh. cat., University Liggett School. Grosse Pointe Woods, June 13-16, 1979, p. 12.

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Chinese, Palace Bowl with Garden Scene, between 1426 and 1430, porcelain with underglaze cobalt and clear glaze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 43.67.