Oil green bowl with flower decoration

Southeast Asian Collection

Accession Nr.: 61.354.1
Type: pottery
Date of production:
11 – 12th century
Place of production:
Materials/Techniques: stoneware, glazed
Dimensions: height: 6.5 cm
diameter: 17 cm
Greenish glazed bowl with floral decoration on the inside, figures of boys playing among peonies, and traces of spur marks. The figure of children playing among flowers evolved from a popular Song-era motif, symbolising fertility. It came into the possession of the Hopp Museum in 1961 as an exchange gift from the Museum of History of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.