LOT 0531 MING YELLOW DRAGON OVER BLUE GLAZED…
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Chinese Ming Dynasty Period, yellow dragon over blue glazed motif porcelain ink box. Stoutly potted Chinese porcelain unto a slightly flattened round box, with rounded wide cavetto, globular, correspondence dome lid, raised from rounded sides over a wide cavetto Inner flange circumscribed around the containers lip allows for a perfect fitment of the covering. All reserved hand painted ornamentations are rendered in deep blue under glaze base color which contrast against the creme yellow fine color. The dome lid adorned with five claws imperial dragon soaring amidst flames and vapors, with face and upper right appendage outstretched toward the heavens. Vigorous dragons chasing flaming pearl amidst flames against creme yellow scrolling clouds diaper. The backdrop depicts swirling wind and fire painted atop a beautiful blue under glaze. The foot base rim decorated with scrolling flaming clouds. 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. A characteristic heaped and piled effect, the under glaze grayish-blue concentrates in certain areas, bubbling through the surface of the glaze and turning a deep blue-black. The underside unglazed, revealed the pale-creme ground and dark grayish brown spotted firing marks and edge-cut foot rim. The mouth rim reveals the cut edges during the making process, and the base left unglazed with grayish creme-brown ground and dark spots of firing marks. Mark on under base, a vertical six under glazed blue script characters reign mark, enclosed within double fine rings, Longqing Reign Period of Great Ming Dynasty. Dimensions: 3.125"L x 2.25"H
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