Bowl with Dragons and Clouds (1368–98): Art, History and Details

Bowl with Dragons and Clouds (1368–98) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Fragments of bowls with unglazed foot rings and molded and incised ornament very similar to this extremely rare piece have been excavated at the early Ming dynasty site of the Hongwu palace at Nanjing.

Object facts

• Title: Bowl with Dragons and Clouds
• Date: 1368–98
• Culture: China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen, Ming dynasty (1368-1644), Hongwu period (1368-98)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: porcelain with molded and incised decoration and copper-red glaze
• Dimensions: Diameter: 10 cm (3 15/16 in.); Overall: 5 cm (1 15/16 in.)
• Collection: China - Ming Dynasty
• Department: Chinese Art
• Accession number: 1964.222

Collection credit

Severance and Greta Millikin Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Sotheby's, London. Important Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes and Jades; Early Chinese Ceramics; T'ang Pottery; Sung Wares; Yuan and Ming Wares; Highly Important Ritual Bronzes and a Fine Collection of Jade Carvings. 28 May 1963. Lot no. 123.
• Lee, Sherman E., and Wai-kam Ho. Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty, 1279-1368. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; [distributed by the Press of Case Western Reserve University], 1968.
• Neils, Jenifer. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.