Bowl with dragons
The overglaze red and green enamels on this bowl add a colorful touch to the lively dragons painted in underglaze blue. Produced by the imperial workshop, this object demonstrates the courtly taste for color that developed in the fifteenth century.
Artwork Details
- 明正德 景德鎮窯青花紅綠彩龍紋碗
- Title: Bowl with dragons
- Period: Ming dynasty (1368–1644), Zhengde mark and period (1506–21)
- Culture: China
- Medium: Porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze red and green enamels (Jingdezhen ware)
- Dimensions: Diam. 6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm)
- Classification: Ceramics
- Credit Line: Gift of Stanley Herzman, in memory of Adele Herzman, 1991
- Object Number: 1991.253.54
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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