Title
Vase with applied chi dragon
Year/Period
Mid-17th century
Region
Dehua, Fujian province, China
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 13.5 x 7 cm
Accession No.
2000-03408
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Frank and Pamela Hickley
This vase has the design of a lizard around its slender neck. The lizard is in fact the 'chi' dragon, a type of dragon with bifurcated tail that appeared much earlier on 'qingbai' wares from Jingdezhen. The name qingbai alludes to the bluish-tinged glaze that covered the white ceramic body of these vessels.Dehua, located on the southeast coast of Fujian province, is well known for its production of white porcelain, known to Europeans as 'blanc de Chine'. The earliest Dehua porcelain was produced as early as the 14th century but the production and quality of these porcelain peaked around the 17th and 18th centuries.
