Jingdezhen ware
(China)
- Title
- Dish with dragon motif
- Other titles:
- Saucer dish with green enamel dragon
Dish with dragon design - Place of origin
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Jingdezhen →
Jiangxi Province →
China
- Period
- Zhengde 1506 - 1521 → Ming dynasty 1368 - 1644 → China
- Year
- 1506-1521
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- porcelain with green enamel decoration
- Dimensions
-
4.2 x 18.0cm
- Credit
- Purchased 1964
- Accession number
- EC2.1964
- Location
- Lower Asian gallery
- Further information
In the centre of the plate’s interior is a five-clawed, descending dragon, its mouth closed. Three patches of swollen clouds are used to decorate the background. The exterior is decorated with two relatively simple five-clawed dragons. The bodies of the dragons are enamelled on the biscuit (the unglazed clay), with so called 'an hua' or 'secret decoration' of wave and rock patterns barely visible beneath the white glaze on the walls of the dish. This green enamelled ware with a white ground is distinctive of the Zhengde period.
Asian Art Department, AGNSW, January 2012
- Bibliography (2)
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J. Hepburn Myrtle (Australia, b.1911, d.1998) (Author), Chinese porcelain of the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties, Sydney, 1977, 8, 22. cat.no. 22. See Further Information for text.
'The Marvel of Porcelain', The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales 2003, 2003, 120 (colour illus.).
- Exhibition history (2)
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Chinese porcelain of the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 18 Feb 1977–26 Jun 1977.
Dragon (2012), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 18 Jan 2012–06 May 2012.
