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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
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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

Verification Level

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