Bottle with Coiling Dragon, Ming dynasty (1368–1644), Wanli period (1573–1620), late 16th century, China, Porcelain with transparent glaze (Dehua ware), H. 8 1/4 in. (21 cm), Ceramics, Archaeological evidence indicates that the kilns near Dehua in Fujian Province on China’s southeastern coast opened in the late thirteenth century and flourished from the sixteenth to the eighteenth. Characterized by thick, lustrous glazes, Dehua wares, both religious figures and items for use on a scholar’s desk, were exported to Europe in the seventeenth to nineteenth century
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Bottle, Coiling Dragon, Ming dynasty, 1368–1644, Wanli period, 1573–1620, late 16th century, China, Porcelain, transparent glaze, Dehua ware, H, 8 1/4, 21 cm, Ceramics, Archaeological evidence, indicates, kilns, Dehua, Fujian Province, southeastern, coast, opened, thirteenth, century, flourished, sixteenth, eighteenth, Characterized, thick, lustrous glazes, wares, religious figures, items, scholar, desk, exported, Europe, seventeenth, nineteenth
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