Measurements: Height: " Width/Length: " Diameter/Depth: " Chinese Ming Dynasty Period, Jiajing porcelain plate. The porcelain potted in shallow vessel form, thick and large, with broad wide central interior, rounded cavetto gently tapering to open wide, with a slight flaring open lip, raised with round shallow draft, slight concave base. The exterior decorated by applying a variety of five-colored pigments creates bold opaque hand-painting of snarling huge imperial five claws dragon careening through cumulus clouds above thrashing Li-shui waves in a vivid tones color dragon squama to chasing flaming pearl amidst flames and vapors, enclosed with double fine blue rings lines. The glaze is seamless and gives off a beautiful luster, with the colors maintaining excellent vibrancy.Mark on base, a six blue script characters reign mark, enclosed with double fine blue rings lines, Jiajing Reign Period of Great Ming Dynasty.