Dish with four flying dragons in tou-ts’ai color, Ch’eng-hua reign (1465-1487), Ming dynasty-China Archive

Image Number: K1B009984N000000000PAB
Dynasty: Ming dynasty
Category: Ceramics
Function: Container
Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
Description:
Pan, caulked mouth, shallow wall curved, round foot. The outer wall is painted with four blue, green, yellow and red cloud dragons, and the bottom is painted with wavy patterns, which are outlined by underglaze blue and white, and then painted with overglaze colors. Due to the unstable heat during burning, some green waves turn red. The mouth and foot are decorated with three green threads. The plate is plain white without ornamentation. On the bottom of the blue and white book is a six character regular script on both sides of the “Ming Dynasty Chenghua Annual System”. There are use marks in the disc, and the colored glaze outside the disc falls off.