Title
Dish with dragon design
Artists
Unknown Artist
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Details
- Other Titles
- Dish
Dish with red-enamelled dragon design - Place where the work was made
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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
- 3.7 x 18.2 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Mr J.H. Myrtle 1983
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 218.1983
- Copyright
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About
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
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Places
Where the work was made
China
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
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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J. Hepburn Myrtle, Late Chinese Imperial Porcelain, Sydney, 1980, 7, 32 (illus.). cat.no. 45
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Jill Sykes (Editor), Look, Sydney, Mar 2012, 48 (colour illus.).
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