Bowl with Dragon and Phoenix Maker: Unknown

dated by inscription, 1798

Asian Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Porcelain with over clear glaze

Dimensions

1 3/4 × 4 1/2 in. (4.4 × 11.4 cm)

Credit Line

S. Wells Willams Collection, Bequest of F. Wells Williams, B.A. 1879

Accession Number

1928.201

Geography

Jingdezhen kilns, Jiangxi Province, China

Culture

Chinese

Period

Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Jiaqing period (1796–1820)

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
Samuel Wells Williams (1812–1884) Collection; bequest of Frederick Wells Williams (1857–1928) in 1928; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Susan B. Matheson, Art for Yale: A History of the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2001), 76–77, 83, fig. 62.
  • Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 295, ill.
  • George J. Lee, Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1970), 34, no. 52, ill.
  • L. R., "The Williams Collection of Chinese Porcelains," Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University 3, no. 1 (1928).
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

bowls (vessels)

Marks

Jiaqing wu wu shi tang zhi

Signed

"Jia Qing wu wu shi jing tang zhi" (the wu wu year of the Chia Ch'ing/Jiaqing period, 1798, made for the Hall Of Respectful Matters), in red enamel on base

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