Dish with design of dragons and clouds
Object Details
- Description
- Dish with slightly flaring plain rim. Polychrome.
- Clay: fine white porcelain.
- Glaze: transparent.
- Decoration: five-clawed dragons among clouds in overglaze iron red inside and out.
- 6-character Hsuan-te mark in underglaze blue on base.
- Marks
- 6-character Xuande mark in underglaze blue on base.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Looking Out, Looking In: Art in Late Imperial China (October 14, 2017 - ongoing)
- Luxury and Luminosity: Visual Culture and the Ming Court (July 3, 2004 to June 26, 2005)
- Chinese Ceramics (May 9, 1993 to April 17, 1995)
- Chinese Ceramics (March 15, 1982 to July 10, 1986)
- Chinese Art (March 9, 1981 to March 12, 1982)
- Chinese Ceramics (May 9, 1980 to March 6, 1981)
- Chinese Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to September 4, 1980)
- Chinese Calligraphy and Ceramics (April 18, 1977 to April 8, 1978)
- Chinese Art (January 1, 1963 to March 6, 1981)
- Credit Line
- Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
- 1426-1435
- Period
- Ming dynasty, Xuande Reign
- Accession Number
- F1965.4
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Porcelain with cobalt under clear glaze, enamel over glaze
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 3.7 × 19 cm (1 7/16 × 7 1/2 in)
- Style
- Jingdezhen ware
- Origin
- Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China
- On View
- Freer Gallery 13: Looking Out, Looking In: Art in Late Imperial China
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- See more items in
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Topic
- ceramic
- dragon
- Jingdezhen ware
- Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)
- Xuande reign (1426 - 1435)
- cloud
- China
- porcelain
- Chinese Art
- Record ID
- fsg_F1965.4
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye34b77cd00-9ef4-44fe-b3b4-d6ce37294332
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