Zhangzhou ware bowl with design of dragons and plants

Object Details

• Description

  Bowl with everted flattened rim.

  Clay: porcelain

  Glaze: opaque white, cobalt-tinted blue, and clear glazes

  Decoration: in white slip and cobalt and iron pigments, of a pair of dragons chasing a flaming pearl amidst clouds in the bottom, with two alternating plant motifs around the cavetto, and key-fret pattern on the rim.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Origin

  Zhangzhou kilns, Fujian province, China

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Rosalind, Sidney, and Stephen Glazer Memorial Fund for Chinese Ceramics

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  1620s, 1570s

• Place

  China, Japan, Zhangzhou kilns, Fujian province

• Topic

  Porcelain, Art, Chinese Art, Swastika, Ceramics, Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644), Zhangzhou ware, Dragon

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)