Collection
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China
- Title
- Dish with dragon design
- Other titles:
- Dish
Dish with red-enamelled dragon design - Place of origin
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China
- Period
- Guangxu 1875 - 1908 → Qing dynasty 1644 - 1911 → China
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- porcelain decorated in overglaze red enamel
- Dimensions
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3.7 x 18.2cm
- Credit
- Gift of Mr J.H. Myrtle 1983
- Accession number
- 218.1983
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
In the centre of the dish's interior are two five-clawed dragons contesting a flaming pearl painted in gold amongst flame clouds and ruyi (literally, 'as you wish') clouds. On the exterior, two pacing dragons also chase a flaming pearl among the clouds.
Asian Art Department, AGNSW, January 2012
- Bibliography (2)
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J. Hepburn Myrtle, Late Chinese Imperial Porcelain 1980, Sydney, 1980, 7, 32 (illus.). cat.no. 45
Jill Sykes (Editor), Look Mar 2012, Newtown, Mar 2012, 48 (colour illus.).
- Exhibition history (2)
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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
