EP 8 White Glazed Ding Kiln Dish Moulded with Impressed Cloud and Dragon Design《了不起的宝藏》第八集 金定窑印花云龙纹盘

This is an upside-down fired Ding ware, a representative work of impressed pattern craft with exquisite quality. The same kind of impressed dragon pattern dishes is extremely rare, thus it a masterpiece in the history of porcelain, especially impressed with the dragon pattern that is also similar to that on the stone engravings from the imperial tomb of the Northern Song dynasty.

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