1940.279: Rectangular Ink Palette with Decoration of Dragons Pursuing Flaming Jewels

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1940.279

Title

Rectangular Ink Palette with Decoration of Dragons Pursuing Flaming Jewels

Classification

Artists' Tools

Work Type

inkstone

Date

Wanli period, 1573-1620

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen

Period

Ming dynasty, 1368-1644

Culture

Chinese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/205933

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Enameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double rectangle on the base

Dimensions

H. 6.6 x W. 21.4 x D. 13 cm (2 5/8 x 8 7/16 x 5 1/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Samuel C. Davis

Accession Year

1940

Object Number

1940.279

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• John Alexander Pope, "Ming Porcelains in the Davis Collection", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, President and Fellows of Harvard College (November 1941), vol. IX, no. 5, pp. 95-100, p. 99, fig. 4
• Fogg Art Museum, The Use of Blue on Chinese Porcelain of the Ming Dynasty 1368-1644, exh. cat., Harvard University Press (Cambridge, Mass., Spring 1947), no. 33 (not illustrated)

Exhibition History

• Transformations: Asia East and West, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/19/1992 - 02/14/1993

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