Vase with coiling dragon

Maker: Unknown

1740

Asian Art

On view, 4th floor, Special Exhibitions
Medium

Porcelain with appliqued dragon and colored enamels over clear glaze

Dimensions

5 1/4 × 3 1/8 × 10 1/16 in. (13.4 × 8 × 25.6 cm)

Credit Line

Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Gift of Mrs. William H. Moore

Accession Number

1952.52.32

Geography

China

Culture

Chinese

Period

Qing dynasty (1644–1911)

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
Mrs. William H. Moore (1858–1955), New York, to 1952; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Jane Wildgoose, Promiscuous Assemblage, Friendship and the Order of Things, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale Center for British Art, 2009), 22, no. 104
  • George J. Lee, Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1970), 33, no. 51
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

vases

Marks

Da Qing Qianlong nian zhi

Inscriptions

"Qianlong wu nian" (5th year of Ch'ien Lung) on the side of the foot in underglaze blue; "Wo hui t'ang chih" (made for the hall of disordered enrichment) on the base in underglaze blue

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