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- Dish (two dragon design)
Jingdezhen ware plate with dragon playing with a flaming pearl - Place where the work was made
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Jingdezhen
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Jiangxi Province
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China
- Period
- Guangxu 1875 - 1908 → Qing dynasty 1644 - 1911 → China
- Date
- 1875-1908
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- porcelain with underglaze blue decoration
- Dimensions
- 6.4 x 44.5 cm
- Credit
- Purchased 1979
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 134.1979
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Jingdezhen ware
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In the centre of the interior are two five-clawed dragons, one ascending and the other descending, pursuing a flaming pearl among scrolling clouds. On the exterior, two dragons chase flaming pearls. The Dragon King in Buddhism is believed to possess a precious pearl that lies in the ocean. The decorative theme of dragons playing with pearls started to appear after the Tang and Song dynasties (7th – 12th centuries) is one sign of the spread of Buddhism in China.
Asian Art Department, AGNSW, January 2012
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Places
Where the work was made
Jingdezhen
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Chinese Ceramics, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 11 Aug 1965–12 Sep 1965
Late Chinese Imperial Porcelain, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 02 Aug 1980–21 Sep 1980
Dragon (2012), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 Jan 2012–06 May 2012
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Mr V V W Fretwell, Mr L G Harrison, Ivan McMeekin and J. Hepburn Myrtle (Compilators), Chinese ceramics, Sydney, 1965, 31. cat.no.145
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J. Hepburn Myrtle, Late Chinese Imperial Porcelain, Sydney, 1980, front and back cover (colour illus.), 7, 31 (illus.). cat.no. 44. See 'Further Information' for text.
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