Dice Bowl
1426–1435
- Medium
- porcelain with mottled blue glaze
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 25 cm (9 13/16 in.); Overall: 11.6 cm (4 9/16 in.)
- Genre
- Ceramics
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
About
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.