Blue-and-White Porcelain Dragon Bowl with Auspicious Emblems and Qianlong Mark

Ceramic

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The Curio Cabinet Collection

Name/Title

Blue-and-White Porcelain Dragon Bowl with Auspicious Emblems and Qianlong Mark

Entry/Object ID

CR0104

Description

Chinese blue-and-white porcelain bowl painted externally with sinuous dragons emerging through dense stylized clouds above a band of cresting waves. The interior is decorated with ribboned auspicious emblems arranged around a central medallion. The underside bears a six-character Qianlong seal mark, 大清乾隆年製, considered apocryphal and consistent with the bowl's historicizing decorative character. The combination of dragons, clouds, waves and auspicious emblems creates a traditional symbolic program of celestial authority, prosperity and good fortune.

Category

Chinese Painted Porcelain

Made/Created

Artist

Maker presently unidentified

Time Period

20th Century

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Continent

Asia

Culture/Tribe

Chinese

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Underglaze-blue six-character seal-script mark 大清乾隆年製 (Dà Qīng Qiánlóng nián zhì), “Made during the Qianlong reign of the Great Qing,” arranged in three vertical columns. Apocryphal Qianlong mark

Dimensions

Height

3-1/2 in

Diameter

7-3/16 in

Weight

539 g

Accessories

Accessory

Wooden base

Material

Porcelain

Condition

Overall Condition

Very Good

Acquisition

Acquisition Method

Purchase