Dish with Carved Floral Design

A shallow, flaring porcelain dish with a soft pale bluish-white glaze. Carved and incised floral scrolls with lobed petal forms curl across the interior, faintly visible under the glaze. The foot ring is small and the walls rise in a smooth, gentle curve.

Look closer: Small dark speck or firing mark on the outer wall near the foot, below the rim on the left side.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1100s–1200s

Medium

Porcelain with pale bluish-white (qingbai) glaze

Source

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Size

3400 × 1889 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift