Unusual Blanc de Chine saucer with blue underglaze painted decoration. The blanc the Chine production, made in the kilns of the Dehua district in Fujian, was very much appreciated mostly for its characteristic milk-colored monochromatic glaze, whose production began around the 14th century. This dish is of some interest for the addition of the blue decoration which could have been an attempt to imitate the contemporary blue and white production in the Imperial kilns of Jingdezhen. The rise of another kiln distributing the similar artifacts might have been imposed by the need of providing blue and white pottery in a period in which the imperial kilns were seriously neglected.