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Dish with Two Fighting Lions

ca. 1635
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 462
In the second quarter of the seventeenth century, Chinese blue-and-white porcelain production decreased and Iranian potters stepped up manufacture of Chinese-inspired blue-and-white ceramics. The two lions, the swirling fleshy clouds with their vegetal appearance, and the repeating scroll all allude to blue-and-white Chinese export ware.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Dish with Two Fighting Lions
  • Date: ca. 1635
  • Geography: Made in Iran, possibly Mashhad
  • Medium: Stonepaste; incised and painted under transparent glaze
  • Dimensions: H. 3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm)
    Diam. 17 1/16 in. (43.4 cm)
  • Classification: Ceramics
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1924
  • Object Number: 24.47.4
  • Curatorial Department: Islamic Art

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