A tall footed bowl with polychrome enamel decoration

Le dynasty, 15th/16th century

Le dynasty, 15th/16th century
Outlined in iron red and highlighted in green and yellow enamels forming a stylized flower and leaf spray band above jeweled lotus petals on the exterior walls and tall foot, the flared interior rim and well similarly painted with a broken diaper band, striping and a leafy branch surrounded by an unglazed firing ring on the otherwise glazed surface, the deeply recessed foot area on the exterior painted with brown wash.
4 3/4in (12cm) diameter
3in (7.5cm) high

Published
James H. Brow and Anh Hoang Brow, 'Vietnamese Ceramics: A Ten Thousand Year Continuum,' Arts of Asia, March-April 2004, p.93, no. 34.

For a footed bowl in the Freer Gallery of art, painted in underglaze blue with similar flower heads and also with decoration applied onto the exterior surface of the foot, see Louise Allison Court, 'Vietnamese Ceramics in Japanese Contexts,' included in John Stevenson and John Guy, Vietnamese Ceramics: A Separate Tradition, 1997, p. 70, fig. 6.