YUAN BLUE & WHITE DRAGON HIGH BOWL
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Description
Chinese Yuan Dynasty Period blue & white dragon high bowl. The porcelain potted with a shallow body, of a shallow vessel, broad wide cavetto, with a straight opening upper mouth rim, raised on a high reverse cones round with emerge numerous rings, with concave footing. All reserved hand painted ornamentations are rendered in clean white underglaze base color which contrast against the cobalt blue fine color. Blue and white porcelain in Chinese it is called Qing Hua Ci. It is the most important variety of China’s porcelain. It was originated in the Yuan Dynasty. Its color does not easily fade and durability is longer. It used cobaltous oxide as the colorant. Patterns were directly painted onto the inner body and burnt after glaze was applied on it. The Exterior adorned with snarling huge imperial five claws dragon careening through cumulus clouds above thrashing Li-shui waves in a dark brown color dragon squama rounded the bowl to chasing flaming pearl amidst flames. Dragon is the symbol of the Emperor, the Son of Heaven, eternity, Yang and Yin, male vigor and fecundity, the Li-shui wave pattern which is known to be the abode of dragons. This inadvertently gave texture, energy, and shading to the design. The glaze is seamless and gives off a beautiful luster, with the colors maintaining excellent vibrancy. The clay is very fine, with a brilliant glaze finish that was applied by a meticulous, the shape is uniformly proportioned. The foot base rim reveals the cut edges during the making process left unglazed with grayish creme-brown ground and dark spots of firing marks.
Height:3.63 in
Width: 4.25 in
Depth: 4.25 in
Height:3.63 in
Width: 4.25 in
Depth: 4.25 in
Condition
Over all in EXCELLENT condition, with normal anomalies in nature, Normal consider ages and wears.
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YUAN BLUE & WHITE DRAGON HIGH BOWL
Estimate $1,200 - $1,800
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