Blue and White Tile

Ceramic

Drexel Founding Collection

ADM.261 Accession Number, Photographed by Lynn (Clouser) Waddell 2013

Name/Title

Blue and White Tile

Entry/Object ID

ADM.261

Acquisition

Source (if not Accessioned)

Alma Dea Morani, Philadelphia

Notes

Date: 2003 Credit Line: Transferred from the Morani Art Gallery at the Medical College of Pennsylvania Means of Accession: Transfer Restrictions: Morani Core Collection Source: Accessioned by MAG 4/1987; Purchased in China, April 1986

Made/Created

Artist

Unidentified

Date made

circa 1915

Place

Country

China

Continent

Asia

Dimensions

Height

8 in

Width

6-1/2 in

Dimension Notes

H, W: 8x6 1/2 in tile

Material

Porcelain, wood frame

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Exhibition Label

Label

The origin of the underglaze blue cobalt decoration porcelain that became so popular with the diffusion of Chinese export ware during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) can be ascribed to earlier Near Eastern earthenware traditions; it has also been suggested that the very technique of applying underglaze decoration onto a ceramic vase was probably introduced into China from Iran.