Vase with performance of dragon boat
Not on view
This vessel likely depicts an episode from the fourteenth-century novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a historical drama chronicling intrigues from the end of the Han dynasty (206 B.C.–A.D. 220) to the Three Kingdoms period (A.D. 169–280). Such representations were popular in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as wealthy members of the merchant class sought vases with vivid, pictorial scenes to decorate their homes. Gifted to The Met by an American collector, it also reflects Western tastes for Chinese porcelain in the early twentieth century. Note: G4.
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