TY  - ADVS
ED  - Ayala Museum Research Team
TI  - Blue-and-white wares
KW  - Oriental ceramics
KW  - Miag-ao, Iloilo
KW  - 1971
KW  - amrt
KW  - ceramics
KW  - cover bowls
KW  - iloilo
KW  - miag-ao
KW  - polvera
KW  - powder container
KW  - visayas
N1  - 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; With prints
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