Dimensions: Height: 1-3/4" Diameter: 10-5/8" Chinese Ming Dynasty Zhengde Emperor Reign period, Blue and white dragon porcelain plates. The porcelain potted with a shallow body, of a shallow vessel, broad wide cavetto, with a slightly flared lip and shallow draft. All reserved hand painted ornamentations are rendered in clean white underglaze base color which contrast against the cobalt blue fine color. The Exterior decorated with snarling huge five claws imperial dragon careening through cumulus clouds above thrashing Li-Shui waves in a cobalt blue color dragon squama rounded the plate, interspersed with scrolling tendril and flowers blooms, enclosed with double fine blue rings lines. 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. h-dark firing marks. The clay is very fine, with a brilliant glaze finish that was applied by a meticulous, the shape is uniformly proportioned. The glaze appearance on the blue painting resembled the texture of an orange peel "ju-pi" (chu-p'i) or a d chicken skin. The Under-base bears a reign mark, a four underglaze blue script characters reign mark, enclosed within double fine rings; Made In The Years of Zhengde Emperor Reign. See More