This small bowl is painted with a robed figure reclining against a rock. On the other side of the bowl, a young attendant seems to be preparing a drink for his master by a stove. Many similarly-sized bowls with designs sketchily-executed in underglaze blue were recovered from the Hatcher shipwreck, an Asian ship that sank in the South China Sea around 1643. While many bowls of this less refined quality were exported overseas, they have also been excavated in China and were probably used for drinking tea.
