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Fishbowl Vase
| Object Number: | C100A |
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Chinese |
| Provenience: | China |
| Period: | Ming Dynasty |
| Date Made: | 16th Century |
| Early Date: | 1500 |
| Late Date: | 16th Century |
| Section: | Asian |
| Materials: | Clay Glaze |
| Technique: | Fired Ceramic Glazed Incised |
| Iconography: | Dragons |
| Credit Line: | Purchased from Duveen Brothers, 1915 |
| Other Number: | 1115 - Collector Number |
Description
Colossal imperial fishbowl decorated with dragons and incised lines of cloud scrolls and borders with yellow glaze on a creamy white ground. Dense greyish-white pottery. Faint crackle in glaze.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
| Special Exhibition: Classical and Oriental, Part A: Chinese Porcelains - Varied Groups of the Morgan Collection / (12 Dec 1913 - 01 Nov 1915) | View Objects in Exhibition | |
| Harrison Chinese Rotunda Inaugural Exhibition ( Feb 1916) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
| [Article] 1934. "Chinese Dragons (for the younger reader)". The University Museum Bulletin. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Vol. 5. no. 1. pg. 29-31 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 29-31 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation | |
| [Catalogue] Getz, John. 1916. The University Museum Exhibition of Oriental Art.. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 167 ,No. 333 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation | |
| [Article] 1916. "An Exhibition of Oriental Art". The Museum Journal. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum. Vol. VII. no. No. 1. pg. 1-17 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 1-17 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation | |
| [Book] Clarke, Thomas B., and Laffan, William M., and Bushell, Stephen W. 1904. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains.. New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. I. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: No. 1115 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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