Large dish with dragon

ca. 1610-20

Blue-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.

Hard paste porcelain

20 1/4 in. (51.5 cm), diameter

Bequest of Joan Louise Applegate Dice

91.40

Photo: Susan Cole

Now on view at the Seattle Art Museum

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Resources

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, 2000

Published 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.

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