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Collection Online as of September 28, 2023

Dragon

1127–1368

China, Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279) - Yuan Dynasty

(1271-1368)

Glazed porcelain, qingbai ("blue-white") ware

Diameter: 5.2 cm (2 1/16 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1964.42

Location

not on view

Provenance
?-1964
(Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1964-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Weisberg, Gabriel P. and H. W. Janson. Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1975. cat. no. 102
Wilson, J. Keith. "Powerful Form and Potent Symbol: The Dragon in Asia." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 77, no. 8 (1990): 286-323. Reproduced: cat. no. 15, p. 316 www.jstor.org
Exhibition history

Year in Review (1964). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1964-January 31, 1965).

Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975).

Images of the Mind. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 7-August 30, 1987).

Powerful Form and Potent Symbol: The Dragon in Asia. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 24-November 25, 1990).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1964.42