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Dish with Dragons, Pomegranates, and Peaches

Dish with Dragons, Pomegranates, and Peaches

1662–1722

Description

Various techniques are applied to the decoration of susancai or "plain three-color" ware. The hidden dragons are incised, over which are painted decoration of fruit and flower sprays outlined with black pigment and colored with yellow, green, turquoise, and purplish brown enamels. The ground is filled with ivory enamel over unglazed clay.
  • ?-1930
    (Bluett & Sons, London, UK, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1930-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Hollis, Howard C. “Four Chinese Porcelains.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 22, no. 1, 1935, pp. 4–6 Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 4-6 www.jstor.org
  • Chinese Ceramics. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 3-June 4, 1967).
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1930.313