Blue and White Rice Bowl with Bamboo Motif

The delicate blue and white bamboo design of this porcelain rice bowl was painted in a muted, grey pigment, only to be transformed to a rich, cobalt blue by the fiery heat of the kiln. Retaining the immediacy of the artist’s brushwork, the design offers a sense of simplicity and spontaneity that looks as fresh today as it did serving food at the turn of the 20th century.