This dark-green glazed dish has an unglazed ring at the centre. The base of the dish has a wash of rich chocolate-coloured slip (a mix of clay and water), which allowed for other dishes to be stacked on top during firing. This was perhaps a trademark, or a style of finishing that emulated the orange tone found on the base of earlier Chinese porcelain. These copper-green monochrome wares were one of the early export wares made by northern Vietnamese kilns.
