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Dish with design of dragons and clouds

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    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

    Date

    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

    West Building (Freer Gallery of Art), Gallery 13: Looking Out, Looking In: Art in Late Imperial China

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    National Museum of Asian Art

    Data Source

    National Museum of Asian Art

    Topic

    ceramic
    dragon
    Jingdezhen ware
    Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)
    Xuande reign (1426 - 1435)
    cloud
    China
    porcelain
    Chinese Art

    Metadata Usage

    Usage conditions apply

    Link to Original Record

    http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye34b77cd00-9ef4-44fe-b3b4-d6ce37294332

    Record ID

    fsg_F1965.4

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