Dish with dragon and cloud decoration in sweet-white glaze, Ming dynasty, Yongle reign (1403-1424)-China Archive

Image Number: K1B004231N000000000PAB
Dynasty: Ming dynasty
Category: Ceramics
Function: Container
Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
Description:
The mouth of the dish is slightly extravagant, shallow and short. The fetus is delicate and white, one is extremely thin, and the other is slightly thick. The whole body is painted with white and warm glaze, and the fetus is exposed only at the foot landing place. The fetus is delicate and white. There are two cloud dragon patterns on the inner wall of the body, three auspicious clouds are carved on the inner bottom, and the cloud band is long with cloud feet, arranged in a zigzag pattern. The site of the Palace Museum of the Ming Dynasty at Yudai River in Nanjing unearthed fragments of white glaze and red color cloud dragon patterns and blue and white cloud dragon patterns from the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty. The Zhushan site in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, also found color glazed porcelain decorated with double dragon cloud patterns, which can be seen from the Hongwu period.