AS34
With ribbed body, knopped stem and small flaring foot, the body painted with a continuous band of flowering plants, the bottom of the bowl with six raised moulded lotus-shaped panels below five further raised moulded lotus panels, each lotus panel decorated with a flowerhead, the interior of the bowl painted with a band of leaves around the rim, the foot and base of the stem with two more bands of flowering plants below a band of stiff leaves around the knop, the footrim unglazed, the base glazed with an artemesia leaf in underglaze blue.
Literature
For goblets of this type and shape, see Porcelain From The Vung Tau Wreck: The Hallstrom Excavation by Christiaan J. Jorg and Michael Flecker, Jorg gives a dating of approximately 1690 - 1700 to the Vung Tau wreck.
