Bowl of Chinese porcelain from the wreck of the Dutch East Indiaman Witte Leeuw

anonymous

before 1613

porcelain

Rijksmuseum

A white porcelain bowl with blue decorative patterns is shown against a plain gray background. The bowl has a slightly irregular rim and visible crackling on its interior surface. A bowl. In the centre is a type of wheel motive, which is encircled by a double band. The walls are undecorated. The outside has a band around the lip-rim with half 'wheels' washed in with blue. The lower half has sketchily drawn designs.