China

Porcelain is a special variety of hard and fine ceramic pasta, translucent and usually bianca, cooked at very high temperature. Devoted to various uses, developed greatly in China as early as the Paleolithic. The secret manufacturing will last about five centuries. You will be also exported to the West where it will be very popular especially in the version white / blue.

Yuan Dynasty – Jar said Meiping (bottles for a branch of plum)- Porcelain decorated with a dragon in the negative - sec. XIV pm. cm. 34

The Yuan dynasty developed the basic rules of the iconography of the dragon ritual. The textures Song had described as a composite creature, whose different parts were borrowed from various real animals. Represented with the head of an ox and an ass face, eyes of shrimp, deer antlers, body of a snake with fish scales and claws of the phoenix. Over the centuries, the list of assimilation varied up to a fixed 9, symbolic number yang. The craftsman who made the vessel has been deployed only a dragon on the entire circumference of the vessel in its power and its fluidity. The bottle is covered with a glaze of cobalt-blue uniform on which stands the white dragon

Namo Amitabha