Egg-white Glazed Dish with Stamped Design of Dragon among Clouds

Egg-white glazed porcelain refers to those white-glazed porcelain wares produced in Jingdezhen in the Yuan dynasty. Those porcelains wares are with thick clay body and bluish-white glaze color resembling eggshell. The motifs, usually design of dragon among clouds, were stamped on the wares. Because extant egg-white glazed porcelain wares are often stamped with a Chinese word referring to “Bureau of Military Affairs”(shu fu) among the decoration, these type of porcelain wares is also called “shu fu glazed ware”.