14. Chinese blue-and-white bowl. Ming dynasty, Xuande period (142635).

Jingdezhen ware, porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt blue. diam: 8 in. (20.6 cm). Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection, Seattle Art Museum. The bowl is decorated with lotus scrolls on the interior and double rows of lotus petals on the exterior, where the Xuande emperors reign mark also appears. Photo: Paul Macapia. 49.154.

15. Chinese blue-and-white dish. Ming dynasty, Chenghua period (148187). Jingdezhen ware, porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt blue. diam: 7 in. (19 cm). Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection, Seattle Art Museum. The dish is decorated with the eight auspicious emblems derived from Tibetan Tantric Buddhism. In the well of the dish, highly stylized versions of lotus buds encircle the Wheel of Law; the remaining seven emblems are painted on the rim of the vessel. Photo: Paul Macapia. 51.85.

16. Chinese blue-and-white dish. Yuan dynasty, 14th century. Jingdezhen ware, porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt blue. diam: 18 in. (47 cm). Purchased in memory of Elizabeth M. Fuller with funds from the Elizabeth M. Fuller Memorial Fund and the Edwin and Catherine M. Davis Foundation, Seattle Art Museum. Dishes such as this were made at Jingdezhen for Southwest Asia, where communal dining made large vessels necessary. Clay molds were used to produce such pieces. Photo: Paul Macapia. 76.7.

17. Korean blue-and-white bottle. Choson dynasty, ca. 18001850. Porcelain with underglaze blue decoration. h: 8 in. (20.3 cm). Gift of Frank S. Bayley III in Memory of Dorothy Stimson Bullitt, Seattle Art Museum. Photo: Paul Macapia. 82.127.

18. Japanese blue-and-white ewer. Edo period, ca. 164050. Imari ware, porcelain with underglaze blue decoration. h: 8 in. (22.5 cm). Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection, Seattle Art Museum. Photo: Paul Macapia. 70.11.

19. Japanese blue-and-white plate for the VOC, ca. 166080. Porcelain, Imari ware. diam: 15 in. (38.9 cm) Floyd A. Naramore Memorial Purchase Fund, Seattle Art Museum. The monogram for the Vereenigte Oost-Indische Compagnie is in the center of this plate, encircled by two phoenixes, a flowering camellia, and pomegranates. The panels, in which decoration of bamboo plants alternate with peonies, are modeled on the style developed in Jingdezhen for Dutch Kraakporselein. Photo: Paul Macapia. 75.78.

20. German saucer. Meissen manufactory, ca. 1725. Porcelain with enamel colors and gilding. diam: 5 in. (12.7 cm). Dorothy Condon Falknor Collection of European Ceramics, Seattle Art Museum. Photo: Paul Macapia. 87.142.101.

21. A collection of blue-and-white pottery. Large vessel on left: Vietnamese pottery, 15th16th century. Large vessel on right: Chinese porcelain, 15th16th century. Vessel at top center: Chinese porcelain, 17th century. Vessel in center, between two large vessels: Syrian pottery, 15th century. Vessel to left of Syrian piece: Japanese porcelain, 17th century. Vessel to right of Syrian piece: Persian pottery, 17th century. Three shards, Chinese porcelain, 14th century.

22. Persian plate. Safavid period, 17th century. Pottery with underglaze blue decoration. diam: 13 in. (35.2 cm). Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection, Seattle Art Museum. Photo: Paul Macapia. 48.146.

23. Ottoman plate. Late 16th century. Pottery with underglaze blue, black, and green decoration. diam: 12 in. (30.5 cm). Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection, Seattle Art Museum. The ornament mixes motifs used on vessels produced at the Iznik pottery and Jingdezhen. Photo: Paul Macapia. 57.17.

24. Chinese blue-and-white plate. Ming dynasty, ca. 162550. Jingdezhen ware, porcelain with underglaze blue decoration. diam: 14 in. (36.2 cm). Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ford Q. Elvidge, Seattle Art Museum. The plate is Kraakporselein, probably modeled on a widerimmed Dutch wooden platter, with decoration of tulip buds and radiating panels with stylized flowers; the four panels represent down-to-earth rural labor and scholarly meditation, activities that stand for ideal pursuits among Chinese literati. Photo: Paul Macapia. 75.51.