Blue-and-white wares
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Visual materialSubject(s): Oriental ceramics | Miag-ao, Iloilo | 1971 | amrt | ceramics | cover bowls | iloilo | miag-ao | polvera | powder container | visayasOnline resources: View photo (midsize) | View photo (thumbnail) | View in Retrato website With printsGeneral Note(s): Miagao Ming wares. A set blue-and-white Ming bowl and covered bowls. The small fragile bowl seen at the back has a finely drawn blue design of a sleeping child. It is the only one of its kind excavated in Panay. It measures 2 inches high and 4 inches in diameter. The rest are covered bowls of different shapes and sizes. At the extreme right is a 3-inch high polvera with undulating body and cover, the knob of which is shaped like a tiny elephant(or cat) of pink clay. To the left is another blue-and-white piece, 2.5 inches high, with a flying heron design on top of its cover. The covered bowls were used as containers of betel nut ingredients or tobacco leaves and also as make-up kits for womenImage type: OriginalMedia format: With prints List(s) this item appears in: WWII - Panay
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Filipinas Heritage Library | Retrato - Special Collections | SC00581 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan | SC00581 |
Miagao Ming wares. A set blue-and-white Ming bowl and covered bowls. The small fragile bowl seen at the back has a finely drawn blue design of a sleeping child. It is the only one of its kind excavated in Panay. It measures 2 inches high and 4 inches in diameter. The rest are covered bowls of different shapes and sizes. At the extreme right is a 3-inch high polvera with undulating body and cover, the knob of which is shaped like a tiny elephant(or cat) of pink clay. To the left is another blue-and-white piece, 2.5 inches high, with a flying heron design on top of its cover. The covered bowls were used as containers of betel nut ingredients or tobacco leaves and also as make-up kits for women.
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