Ming yongle White glazed dark carved dragon tank

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note: sweet white porcelain in the yuan dynasty is pivot mansion and develops on the basis of porcelain, white porcelain quiet hue limitations because of yongle period, person gives on the vision with the feeling of “sweet”, so called “sweet white”. Sweet white porcelain enjoys a high prestige in the history of ceramics in our country, has always been highly regarded, literature said it “as white as coagulate fat, element of snow”.
sweet as one of the yongle emperor favorite glaze craft, the Ming emperor taizong: a memoir, “yongle four year of October is not a reporter:” and “teeth into the jade bowl, not, life does not give money sent also. “Ministers Zheng Ci yue:” I used Chinese porcelain, seize the day clean, jade-like stone, very suitable for heart, don’t need this also. Case it treasures today also have, but I don’t have to.” Yongle emperor, therefore, have a special liking to white porcelain. This items as in the yongle sweet Bai Qi masterpieces, as well as inside the house. Its modelling Juan xiuhe, connect body and foot are ShiYingJie sweet white glaze, the glaze quality, renew the white as coagulate fat, abdominal dark moment YunLongWen for a week. This type fresh rare yongle sweet white cans, and so and dark carved dragon is rare. Mr Ming-hua lu, director of the Shanghai museum ceramics research in its written by the Shanghai museum collection research department Mentioned in the Ming dynasty imperial porcelain “and” jiajing imitated yongle white glazed pot “, put forward in the book “the modelling of yongle white glazed pot in rare handed down, but the jingdezhen imperial factory site unearthed some jintong white glazed pot, modelling, of course, there are still difference between… “Beijing municipal institute of cultural relics hidden five tower temple Kentucky unearthed yongle sweet white glaze cover tank can be compared to the same size, shape and decorative dissimilar (its shadow bound branch lotus lines).