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Title
Dish with dragon design
Artists
Unknown Artist
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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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Dish
Dish with red-enamelled dragon design
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
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Dish with dragon design
Place
Where the work was made
China
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Exhibition history
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
Referenced in 2 publications
Bibliography
Look, Sydney, Mar 2012, 48 (colour illus.).
Late Chinese Imperial Porcelain, Sydney, 1980, 7, 32 (illus.). cat.no. 45