Plain tricolor dragon vase

[plain tricolor dragon vase]

plain tricolor dragon vase, Ming Wanli, height 37.5 cm, caliber 9.5 cm, foot diameter 16 cm
Bottle edge, short neck, shoulder slip, thin shin, and round-foot curling. The neck and near the foot are painted with a yellow wide band pattern, the shoulder is painted with a blue and white lotus petal pattern, the outer wall is painted with peacock blue glaze, and the yellow color is decorated with a dragon pattern
The plain tricolor refers to a kind of low temperature glazed porcelain fired in Jingdezhen. The decorative patterns on the surface are mainly yellow, green and purple, with no or less use of red color, so it is called the plain tricolor. Xu Zhiheng of the Qing Dynasty wrote “Drinking and Flowing in the Room and Speaking of Porcelain”, which said that “those who draw patterns in three colors of eggplant, yellow and green are called plain tricolor”. The production method is to fill the carved pattern with colored glaze on the plain tire fired at high temperature, and then burn it at low temperature. Three-color glazed pottery was created and burned in the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty. The Wanli Three-color glazed pottery appeared the process of color stacking, such as yellow color, green color, and so on. This article is based on the peacock blue glaze and painted with yellow color. Although the color is peeling off and uneven, this article is the only one of the Ming Wanli vegetarian tricolor articles in our collection