Large dish with dragon

Dateca. 1610-20

Label TextBlue-and-white Chinese export ware produced during the late Ming dynasty inspired a tremendous European craze for porcelain. The Dutch called this ware kraakporselein, probably named for Portuguese carracks, large sailing vessels that transported porcelain to Europe. Kraak porcelain covered the walls of European porcelain rooms.

Object number91.40

Photo CreditPhoto: Susan Cole

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Timeless Grandeur: Art from China", April 25, 2002 - June 12, 2005 Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Porcelain Stories: From China to Europe", February 17, 2000-May 7, 2000Published ReferencesSchroeder, Paul A. and Gary Erickson. "Kaolin: From Ancient Porcelains to Nanocomposites," in Elements: An International Magazine of Mineralogy, Geochemistry, and Petrology, Volume 10, Number 3, June 2014, fig. 5E, p. 181 Froula, Christina. "Proust's China," in Modernism / modernity, Vol. 19, no. 2, April 2012, pp. 227-254, illus. p. 236, fig. 5 Emerson, Julie, Jennifer Chen, & Mimi Gardner Gates. "Porcelain Stories, From China to Europe." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 2000, p. 104 Shirahara, Yukiko. "Japan Envisions the West: 16th - 19th Century Japanese Art from the Kobe City Museum." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 2007, pl. 127, p. 168 Qian, Zhaoming (ed.). Modernism and the Orient. New Orleans: University of New Orleans Press, 2012; p. 84, reproduced fig. 5.

Credit LineBequest of Joan Louise Applegate Dice

Dimensions20 1/4 in. (51.5 cm), diameter

MediumHard paste porcelain