Dice Bowl (1426–35): Art, History and Details
Dice Bowl at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1426–35, porcelain with mottled blue glaze. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Dice Bowl (1426–35) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
The Chinese connoisseurs use the poetic term "snowflake blue" to describe the mottling effects of white blotches amid tones of blue colored with cobalt oxide. Such aesthetic effects were achieved by blowing the glaze through a bamboo tube onto the ceramic surfaces.
Object facts
- Title: Dice Bowl
- Date: 1426–35
- Culture: China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen, Ming dynasty (1368-1644), Xuande mark and period (1426-1435)
- Type: Ceramic
- Technique: porcelain with mottled blue glaze
- Dimensions: Diameter: 25 cm (9 13/16 in.); Overall: 11.6 cm (4 9/16 in.)
- Collection: China - Ming Dynasty
- Department: Chinese Art
- Accession number: 1989.287
Collection credit
Bequest of Mrs. Severance A. Millikin
Further reading listed by the museum
- Catalogue of the Severance and Greta Millikin Collection. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1990.
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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.
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