The National Museum PH is featuring one of its National Cultural Treasures (NTC) the Marinduque Celadon Jar. The Marinduque Celadon Jar is a distinctive stoneware dated to 1279 to 1368 Common Era (CE), originating from the Yuan Dynasty China. It was purchased by Alfredo Evangelista, then assistant director of the National Museum of the Philippines (NMP), in Marinduque in 1965. The celadon jar, with accession number 65-B-5, features a translucent jade-like green glaze application almost throughout its body, decorated with four Chinese dragons in embossed reliefs – a symbol of imperial power, strength, and good fortune in East Asian culture. The artifact’s form is characterized with an everted rim, short-waisted neck, edged shoulder with four vertical lugs, broad body, narrow bottom, and flat foot. It measures 31.2 cm in height and 18.5 cm in maximum body width. Celadon, or greenware, is a kind of stoneware ceramic with bluish-green or grey-green glaze fired between 1200 °C and 1350 °C