Chinese Ming Dynasty Period, LongQing dragon porcelain brush washer. The Porcelain potted in shallow vessel form, with the broad wide central interior, slight deep vessel, rounded cavetto gently tapering to open wide, raised with a round shallow draft. All reserved hand painted ornamentations are rendered in deep blue under glazed base color which contrasts against the egg yellow fine color. The center interior medallion adorned with snarling huge imperial five claws dragons careening through cumulus clouds above thrashing Li-shui waves in a dark blue color dragon squama to chasing flaming pearl amidst flames and vapors. The outer rim festooned with eight auspicious ornament interspersed vapors. 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. The foot rim reveals the cut edges during the making process, and the base left unglazed with the grayish creme-brown ground and dark spots of firing marks. The underside unglazed, revealed the pale-creme ground revealed and dark grayish brown spotted firing marks and edge-cut foot rim. This inadvertently gave texture, energy, and shading to the design. The clay is very fine, with a brilliant glaze finish that was applied by a meticulous, the shape is uniformly proportioned.
Over all in EXCELLENT Condition.
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