5 Chinese Porcelain Translucent Rice Grain Eye plates: 3 Dragon, 2 Chrysanthemum

Description

5 Chinese
Porcelain Translucent Rice Grain Eye (3
Dragon & 2
Chrysanthemum)
Dragon design plate
measures 8 7/8".
Chrysanthemum
design plate
measures 8 1/8".
Plates are Likely from around the 1980s.
This is a very old method of decorating plates and other fine dishes in China where rice grains are
inserted into the wet clay prior to firing and then are disintegrated by the high heat of the kiln leaving small
rice-shaped translucent spots behind.
In very good vintage condition no chips, cracks or utility lines.