Artist: Unknown, potter; Date(s): circa 1600 - circa 1650; Classification(s): fritware (stonepaste), dish, moulding, buff fritware, mould made covered in a white slip, carved and painted in blue and black under a colourless glaze; Acquisition: bequeathed by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio, 1991, H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991 [C.496-1991]
Description: buff fritware, mould made covered in a white slip, carved and painted in blue and black under a colourless glaze.
Shape: hemispherical bowl with flange, lightly bracketed rim, on a low foot ring
Interior: the cavetto is lightly incised with over-lapping scales. In the roundel decoration is reserved in blue and outlined in black, two qilin type beasts are portrayed back to back against a background of lotus flowers and leaves.
Exterior: on the lower body a frieze of half flowers are painted between scrolls. Glaze covers the surface except for the rim of the foot ring; a square seal mark is painted in black on the base. Scar mark just below the rim indicates contact with another vessel in the kiln.
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