Round dice bowl with unederglaze-blue decoration of clouds, dragons, and billows, Hsuan-te reign (1426-1435), Ming dynasty-China Archive

Image Number: K1B004241N000000000PAG
Dynasty: Ming dynasty
Category: Ceramics
Function: Container
Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
Description:
Straight round mouth, wide mouth edge, deep arc wall, shallow concave foot. A pair of cloud dragons are painted in the main pattern on the surface, and waves and lotus petals are decorated on the top and bottom respectively. There is no pattern inside the device. The dragon pattern is also the same. In order to show that the belly is white without scales, it is painted at intervals of a blue and a white short line, while the belly of the front device is almost impossible to recognize. In contrast, the details of the pattern are different from the rough. The blue and white glaze is dark with purple, and the white glaze is thick, so part of the blue and white glaze is diffuse. The fetal bone is thick, hard and delicate. The bottom of the utensil and the ring feet are completely exposed, with iron spots of different sizes. The blue and white script “made in Xuande year of the Ming Dynasty” with two lines and six characters in regular script and double circles on the inner bottom of the device has no similar device in other times, or it was first created in Xuande period and used for special purposes.