Offering Bowl with Fish Artist: Unknown

18th century

Asian Art

On view, 2nd floor, Asian Art

The distinctive image of a red fish, probably a carp, on this bowl produced at the great kiln complex at Jingdezhen illustrates the eighteenth-century aim to re-create older ceramics. The earliest examples of bowls with this shape and imagery date to the beginning of the fifteenth century.

Medium

Porcelain with copper-red pigment under clear glaze

Dimensions

6 1/4 × 4 1/4 in. (15.88 × 10.8 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Peter and Louise Rosenberg

Accession Number

1985.115.1

Geography

China

Culture

Chinese

Period

Qing dynasty (1644–1911)

Classification

Containers

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Rosenberg; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

offering bowls

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