Dish with Dragons, Pomegranates, and Peaches (1662–1722): Art, History and Details

Dish with Dragons, Pomegranates, and Peaches (1662–1722) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

Various techniques are applied to the decoration of susancai or "plain three-color" ware. The hidden dragons are incised, over which are painted decoration of fruit and flower sprays outlined with black pigment and colored with yellow, green, turquoise, and purplish brown enamels. The ground is filled with ivory enamel over unglazed clay.

Object facts

• Title: Dish with Dragons, Pomegranates, and Peaches
• Date: 1662–1722
• Culture: China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Kangxi mark and period (1662–1722)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: Porcelain with incised and enamel decoration, susancai ware
• Dimensions: Diameter: 24.8 cm (9 3/4 in.)
• Collection: China - Qing Dynasty
• Department: Chinese Art
• Accession number: 1930.313

A detail from the museum

There is an imperial ware mark on the base in double blue circles.

Collection credit

Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Hollis, Howard C. “Four Chinese Porcelains.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 22, no. 1, 1935, pp. 4–6.

View the collection record

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