Bowl with Stylized Leaves

China

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 204

Made for export, bowls with this type of decoration are often catalogued as kinrande ware after a Japanese term for fabric with gold thread. Although, as the term implies, such wares are thought to have been made primarily for Japan, examples also reached the Middle East and Europe.

Bowl with Stylized Leaves, Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze in interior and blue glaze and gold on exterior (Jingdezhen ware); English gilt silver mount, ca. 1590–1610, China

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Bowl with Stylized Leaves, Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze in interior and blue glaze and gold on exterior (Jingdezhen ware); English gilt silver mount, ca. 1590–1610, China
Bowl with Stylized Leaves, Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze in interior and blue glaze and gold on exterior (Jingdezhen ware); English gilt silver mount, ca. 1590–1610, China
Bowl with Stylized Leaves, Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze in interior and blue glaze and gold on exterior (Jingdezhen ware); English gilt silver mount, ca. 1590–1610, China

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