New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Dish with Fish, Aquatic Plants, and Stylized Dragon Decoration

Artist Unknown

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)

ClassificationsAsian art

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number71.179

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Red
Green
Grey
White
Orange
China

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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.