Jar with Dragon and Clouds Design
Jar with Dragon and Clouds Design
철화 백자 운룡무늬 호 (鐵畵白磁雲龍文壺)
late 1600s
Korea, Joseon dynasty
(1392-1910)
Porcelain with underglaze iron
Diameter of base: 13.7 cm (5 3/8 in.); Overall: 34.7 cm (13 11/16 in.)
Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1986.69
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A whimsical dragon with bulging eyes wraps his scaled body around this vessel. Freely dispersed squiggly lines represent a series of lightning strikes. Realizing the impossibility of depicting a mythical being in a realistic sense, the artist imaginatively visualized this frightening, yet beneficial beast believed to have an ability to provide rain in times of drought. Coincidentally, in the late 1600s, when this jar was probably created, Korea suffered from erratic climate patterns including severe droughts in the summer.
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