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Dragon-handled double amphora
Photo: iocolor, LLP

Dragon-handled double amphora

Date581-618
Object number52.123
Photo CreditPhoto: iocolor, LLP
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Glaze, Pattern and Image: Decoration in Chinese Ceramics, Sept. 7, 2002 - Nov. 19, 2002. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Boundless: Stories of Asian Art, Feb. 8, 2020 - ongoing. Published ReferencesFoong, Ping, Xiaojin Wu, and Darielle Mason. "An Asian Art Museum Transformed." Orientations vol. 51, no. 3 (May/June 2020): pp. 51-52, reproduced fig. 9. Foong, Ping, Xiaojin Wu, and Darielle Mason. "An Asian Art Museum Transformed." Orientations vol. 51, no. 3 (May/June 2020): p. 61, reproduced fig. 22 (installation view).
Credit LineThomas D. Stimson Memorial Collection
Dimensions6 7/8 x 4 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. (17.46 x 11.11 x 5.4 cm)
MediumPorcelain with transparent glaze on white slip
Cizhou ware-type
Chinese
ca. 12th century
Object number: 41.13
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Chinese
13th century
Object number: 43.8
Photo: Paul Macapia
Chinese
10th century
Object number: 51.122
Photo: Paul Macapia
Chinese
late 11th-12th century
Object number: 48.168
Photo: National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, Republic of Korea
Korean
15th-16th century
Object number: 48.62
Photo: National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, Republic of Korea
Korean
13th-14th century
Object number: 33.204
Photo: National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, Republic of Korea
Korean
13th-14th century
Object number: 33.207
Chinese
960-1127
Object number: 49.138.1
Cizhou ware
Chinese
1115-1234
Object number: 41.12
Chinese
11-12th century
Object number: 2023.11.173
Pillow
Chinese
ca. 1100-1150
Object number: 50.63
Brush holder
Chinese
18th century
Object number: SC77.85