Cleveland Museum of Art

Dice Bowl

Date

1426–35

Medium

porcelain with mottled blue glaze

Culture

China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen, Ming dynasty (1368-1644), Xuande mark and period (1426-1435)

Department

Chinese Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Chinese connoisseurs use the poetic term "snowflake blue" to describe the mottling effects of white blotches amid tones of blue colored with cobalt oxide. Such aesthetic effects were achieved by blowing the glaze through a bamboo tube onto the ceramic surfaces.

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