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Sep 13, 2005
Sep 13, 2005
Sep 13, 2005
Dice Bowl
Dice Bowl
1426–35
Porcelain with mottled blue glaze
Diameter: 25 cm (9 13/16 in.); Overall: 11.6 cm (4 9/16 in.)
Bequest of Mrs. Severance A. Millikin 1989.287
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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.
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