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# Blue and White Bowl with a Fish and Lotus Scroll, Ming Dynasty, Jiajing Mark

Small blue and white porcelain bowl painted outside with a lotus scroll and inside with a fish among water plants, Ming dynasty, the base with a Jiajing mark.

**Period:** [Ming Dynasty](https://realrareantiques.com/ming-dynasty/)
**Reign mark:** [Jiajing](https://realrareantiques.com/ming-dynasty-emperors/jiajing-emperor/)
**Category:** [Ming Dynasty Porcelain](https://realrareantiques.com/product-category/antique-chinese-porcelain/ming-dynasty-porcelain/)
**Dimensions:** Diameter 12.5 cm · Height 6.7 cm
**Reference:** RRA-0126
**Availability:** Available

## Description

A small [blue and white](https://realrareantiques.com/chinese-blue-and-white-porcelain/) porcelain bowl with deep rounded sides on a short foot. The outside is painted with a continuous lotus scroll, the open blossoms linked by leafy, curling stems between blue lines at the rim and the foot. Inside, a blue line circles the rim, and a medallion in the centre shows a fish swimming among water plants and waves. The blue is a soft cobalt, slightly blurred in places: the bowl sat too close to the fire in the kiln, which also gave the outside a more yellowish tone.

The glazed base carries a six-character Jiajing mark, 大明嘉靖年製 (*Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi*), written in regular script in two columns of three, in underglaze blue within a double circle, inside an unglazed foot ring. A reign mark gives the name of a reign; on its own it does not date a piece. Our guide to [Ming reign marks](https://realrareantiques.com/ming-reign-marks/) explains how they are read.

**Learn more:** [The Ming Dynasty](https://realrareantiques.com/ming-dynasty/) · [Jiajing Emperor](https://realrareantiques.com/ming-dynasty-emperors/jiajing-emperor/)

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