Meiping Vase with carved Dragon Motif

1300s

Maker Unknown

Chinese Art

Meiping Vase with carved Dragon Motif, 1300s. South China, Yuan dynasty (1279–1368). Porcelain with pale bluish-white (qingbai; 青白) glaze and carved decoration; overall: 27.6 x 16.5 cm (10 7/8 x 6 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.189 In Chinese mythology, the dragon is believed to transport human souls to the heavens after death.

Original Source

Maker/Artist: Maker Unknown
Classification: Ceramic
Formatted Medium: Porcelain with pale bluish-white (qingbai; 青白) glaze and carved decoration
Medium: porcelain, pale, bluish-white, qingbai, glaze, carved, decoration
Dimensions: Overall: 27.6 x 16.5 cm (10 7/8 x 6 1/2 in.)
Inscribed: Inscription: There are multiple self-adhesive labels on the bottom: 1. Square white (now yellowed with age) label with "90" written in red ink. 2. White rectangular label with "L.80.17.8" written in pencil. 3. Fabric tape cut to rectangular shape with "L.2161.49 /39" written in black ink. 4. White round label from Lally & Co. New York with "X2295" written in black ink.
Departments: Chinese Art
Accession Number: 2020.189
Credit Line: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
Exhibitions: Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection, <em>Chinese Ceramics from the Prehistoric Period Through Ch'ien Lung; A Loan Exhibition from Collections in America and Japan. </em>Los Angeles, CA (March 14-April 27, 1952).
Rights Statement: CC0