Stor med rundade sidor som reser sig från en rak fot, dekor i underglasyrblått av ett flodlandskap med figurstaffage och ett stort skepp. Insidan med en central medaljong med en paviljong med två ämbetsmän samt två lekande gossar. Runt brämet en fortlöpande dekor av ekorrar bland druvor, alternerandes med fåglar i blommande körsbärsträd. Diameter 34,5 cm. Höjd 16 cm.
Lagning. Nagg.
From the collection of Mr Liljenberg Hansson, a long time member of the British Oriental Ceramics Society who started to collect Chinese Works of Art in the 1970's.
Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, Vol II, Yuan and Ming, compare a large bowl with a ship depicted on page 451, TKS15/1541. Described as 'a large ship passing the sea pavillion for viewing the autumn'. Ming, 16th century. Compare also page 676, similar interior decoration on that same bowl.
The inside with decorated with two men under a high gateway flanked with lions, erected to celebrate the most successful candidate of the highest imperial examination, and inscribed Sheng Zhi.