I paired this ceramic Kenzo lotus flower with a Thai green celadon offering bowl, mirroring both the green and the pink in my sitting room colour scheme. In Buddhism the lotus flower symbolises purity, acknowledging that it grows from a muddy pond to produce this divine beauty. The fact that the flower blooms and sheds it seeds at the same time also reflect the theory of karma - what goes around comes around.
This bowl with its lotus petal decoration, has on its base the blue seal mark for the Qianlong period (1735-1795), but is probably much later, and is for sale at auction on Saturday. Although very pretty, in its shape as much as the colour combinations, how many decorative bowls does one need?
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