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Tomorrow Shun blue and white porcelain decoration

The style of decoration tends to be light and elegant, with a sparse layout. The decorative motifs are expressed in a wide range of ways, including realistic and distorted motifs.

The main patterns are twining peony, twining lotus, twining chrysanthemum, folding peony, folding lotus, folding chrysanthemum, pine, bamboo and plum, chrysanthemum and stone, autumn gourd, seawater beasts, two lions rolling the ball, birds and flowers, lotus pond and birds, moonflower pattern, Persian text.

Specific motifs include various kinds of group flowers, flowers with vine tendrils, three or more stacked tortoise-back motifs, cactus-like seawater waves, compound leaf scrolls, stacked swastikas, narrow triangular banana leaves with serrated edges and awned leaf tips, and banana leaves with double-hooked sunflower petal edges.

The entwined lotus flower is lightly sketched with blue and white to outline the pattern, and the color material is applied outside the outline line as the base color, and the petals have single petals and compound petals. The pattern basically follows the style of the previous dynasty, and the layout of the pattern is more sparse and pleasantly beautiful. The general level of figure painting is not high, the picture is more childish and hard, some dull and disproportionate, the figure pattern of clothing, most of the belt painted into a fluttering, seemingly against the wind, with the matching cloud pattern shaped like Ganoderma lucidum or Ruyi cloud-head shape, thick lines for the outline, thin lines for decoration, this cloud pattern composition is known as the characteristics of the tianshun dynasty.

This period, the brocade open decoration is used in large numbers, the specific method is first painted with blue and white delicate brocade such as diamond-shaped, flower-shaped, money-shaped, polka-dot shaped pattern, in the reserved white ground painted flower-shaped, square Ruyi cloud head and other open decorations, and then in the open within the light of the flower, figures, animals and other decorations, open within the light of the decorations with brocade lined out. This technique has begun to use in the Yuan Dynasty, to the Tianshun Dynasty used in large quantities.