Dish with Fish, Aquatic Plants, and Stylized Dragon Decoration
Artist
Unknown
CultureChinese | Ming Dynasty
Date1600-1650
MediumPorcelain | Enamel | Porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze polychrome enamels
DimensionsOverall: 2 x 10 1/2 in. (5.1 x 26.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.179
Not on view
DescriptionDish is decorated in iron red with designs of fish and foliage swimming clockwise on cavetto beneath wide painted band. A seated dragon fills bottom interior within triple red lines. Light green enamel highlights various areas of foliage and dragon. Exterior void of decoration. Glaze a greenish grey. Foot 1/4" bottom exposed body a dark grey. Splotches of a whiter glaze and a burnt orange one randomly splashed on bottom. Made for export to S.E. Asia. Iron red rubbed at places; green enamel has deteriorated; glaze somewhat pitted. Overall irridescence.
Unknown
late 16th - early 17th century
