Dish with dragon

Japanese, for European market

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 201

The motifs of this Kakiemon-style dish are drawn from a Chinese vocabulary of symbols and natural motifs that was widely used in Japanese decorative arts. The circular dragon at the center is a "water dragon," a salamander-like form of this imaginary beast auspiciously associated with water. The motif appears on export porcelain after the late seventeenth century.

Dish with dragon, Hard-paste porcelain painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze (Hizen ware; Kakiemon type), Japanese, for European market

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Dish with dragon, Hard-paste porcelain painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze (Hizen ware; Kakiemon type), Japanese, for European market
Dish with dragon, Hard-paste porcelain painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze (Hizen ware; Kakiemon type), Japanese, for European market

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