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Details
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- Moonflask with a design on each side of a dragon and a flaming pearl
Jingdezhen ware Maguaping with dragon, cloud and ocean designs
清 乾隆 青花釉里红海水云龙纹马挂瓶
清 乾隆 青花釉里紅海水雲龍紋馬掛瓶 - Place where the work was made
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Jingdezhen
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Jiangxi Province
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China
- Period
- Qianlong 1736 - 1795 → Qing dynasty 1644 - 1911 → China
- Date
- 1736-1795
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- porcelain with underglaze blue and copper red
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 26.0 x 12.5 cm
- Credit
- Purchased 1964
- Location
- South Building, lower level 1, Asian Lantern galleries
- Accession number
- EC1.1964
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Jingdezhen ware
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About
A red front-facing dragon ascends from ocean waves, surrounded by scrolling clouds appearing like tongues of flame. Scrolling clouds are also shown emanating from the body of a dragon and from the pearl he chases. Clouds are among the earliest and continuously invoked auspicious symbols in Chinese art. The mystical 'cloud force' was believed to be a vehicle of the immortals. The benevolent rain-bearing dragon represents the authority and power of the imperial throne; the clouds and the waves symbolise two basic elements of the universe.
Asian Art Department, AGNSW, January 2012
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Places
Where the work was made
Jingdezhen
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Exhibition history
Shown in 5 exhibitions
Chinese porcelain of the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 Feb 1977–26 Jun 1977
Dragon (2012), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 Jan 2012–06 May 2012
Conversations through the Asian collections, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 Oct 2014–13 Mar 2016
The Way We Eat, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 03 Apr 2021–13 Jun 2022
Elemental, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 Jul 2022–2024
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Bibliography
Referenced in 10 publications
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales picturebook, Sydney, 1972, 139 (colour illus.).
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Edmund Capon AM, OBE and Jan Meek (Editors), Portrait of a Gallery, 'Asian Art', pg. 106-113, Sydney, 1984, 108 (colour illus.).
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Edmund Capon, The Connoisseur, 'Far Eastern Art in the Art Gallery of New South Wales', pg. 22-29, London, May 1980, 28 (illus.).
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J. Hepburn Myrtle, Chinese porcelain of the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties, Sydney, 1977, 31. cat. no. 59.
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Bruce James, Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, 'Asian Collection: East Asia', pg. 246-287, Sydney, 1999, 258 (colour illus.). See Further Information for text.
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Jackie Menzies (Editor), The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'The Marvel of Porcelain', Sydney, 2003, 127 (colour illus.).
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Jackie Menzies and Edmund Capon AM, OBE, Asian Collection Handbook, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Chinese Porcelain', pg. 30-41, Sydney, 1990, 39 (colour illus.).
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Jacqueline Menzies, Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, 'Asian', pg. 72-93, Sydney, 1988, 77 (colour illus.).
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Public Programmes Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Adventures in Asia. An education kit for the Asian gallery, Sydney, 2003, cover (colour illus.), 5 (colour illus.). card no. 5; the colour illus. on cover is a detail of this work.
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Richard, Cradles of Civilisation: China, "Ming and Qing Society: China and the West", J. Smith, Norman, Sep 1994, 163 (colour illus.).
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Provenance
Sotheby's London, 05 Nov 1963, Sydney/New South Wales/Australia, purchased from the 2nd part of the H.R.Norton sale, Sotheby's London, 5 Nov1963, lot 203 by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1964.
