Plate with Relief Dragon among Clouds (1300s): Art, History and Details

Plate with Relief Dragon among Clouds (1300s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

In the center of this plate a majestic coiled dragon is surrounded by clouds, a wave pattern, and five-petaled rosettes around the rim. In front of the dragon's mouth is a flaming pearl, a symbol often associated with dragons from this time. The plate achieves distinctive visual contrasts with green glaze and brown, and its main decorative motifs are raised.

Object facts

• Title: Plate with Relief Dragon among Clouds
• Date: 1300s
• Culture: China, Zhejiang province, Longquan region, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: porcelaneous stoneware with celadon glaze and molded decoration
• Dimensions: Diameter: 43.2 cm (17 in.)
• Collection: China - Yuan Dynasty
• Department: Chinese Art
• Accession number: 1961.92

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review 1961.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 48, no. 9 (1961): 219–51.
• Lee, Sherman E. “Janus in Limbo.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 1 (January 1963): 3–6.
• Lee, Sherman E. A History of Far Eastern Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1964.

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