Dish with luanbai glaze. Yuan dynasty, AD 1280–1368
Dish with luanbai glaze. Porcelain with moulded decoration, luanbai glaze and copper-rim. Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮. Yuan dynasty, AD 1280–1368. Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art. PDF A443. British Museum © Trustees of the British Museum
Yingqing type porcelain bowl. The bowl has a white body, copper-bound mouth-rim, and blue-grey toned glaze. There are six panels of phoenixes among flower scrolls moulded on the sides, and a flowering branch in the well. Height: 39 mm. Diameter: 163 mm.
This porcelain bowl is covered with an opaque blue-tinged glaze, except for the base. Inside is a moulded design in six panels of phoenixes among flower scrolls on the sides and flowering branch in the well. The invention of this thick egg-white glaze was important for the development of blue-and-white porcelain at Jingdezhen.