Large bowl with could-and-dragon motif in underglaze blue, Ming dynasty, Xuande reign, 1426-1435-China Archive

Image Number: K1B004240N000000000PAG
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 fetal bone is thick, the blue and white flowers are thick, and there are black and brown defects in the deep. The white glaze is green, especially in the vessel. It is a banded ring foot, with the bottom of the organ and the ring foot completely exposed, and with large and small iron spots. The blue and white book “Made in Xuande Year of the Ming Dynasty” with two lines and six characters in regular script on the inner bottom of the vessel, plus double circles.