Jingdezhen ware dish

Object Details

• Description

  Large dish with flaring rounded sides, narrow everted rim, rounded unglazed foot rim dressed with brown wash.

  Clay: white porcelain.

  Glaze: celadon of Longquan type, translucent light green, medium gloss, slight orange-skin texture, base glazed; white body shows through where glaze thins at rim edge and over high parts of molded relief.

  Decoration: molded design of dragon and clouds, bottom of inside; outside of cavetto, molded overlapping lotus petals. The central panel, which measures same as base, is slightly recessed. The three-clawed dragon has profile head and a scroll-ended tail.

• Marks

  Seal form of Yongzheng reign mark in underglaze blue on base.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Looking Out, Looking In: Art in Late Imperial China (October 14, 2017 - ongoing)

  Shades of Green and Blue: Chinese Celadon Ceramics (July 15, 1997 to September 7, 2004)

  A Decade of Discovery: Selected Acquisitions 1970-1980 (November 9, 1979 to May 22, 1980)

• Origin

  Imperial kiln, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China

• Credit Line

  Anonymous gift

• Type

  Vessel

• On View

  Freer Gallery 13: Looking Out, Looking In: Art in Late Imperial China

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1720s, 1730s

• Place

  China, Jiangxi province, Imperial kiln, Jingdezhen

• Topic

  Porcelain, Art, Green glaze, Chinese Art, Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911), Jingdezhen ware, Lotus, Dragon, Reign mark

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)

• On View

  Yes