Blue-and-white Bowl with the Design of Dragon Flying among Flowers

Decorating the exterior and the interior center is the motif of dragons flying among flowers. A two-line reign mark in Mongolian Phagspa script is inscribed within a double-ring on the exterior base, translated as “Made in the Zhengde reign” (Zhengde nianzhi). The dragon, a divine mythological beast that Chinese people worshiped and revered, with interlocking flowers, forms the distinctive decoration.