Dish with Dragons, Pomegranates, and Peaches

A shallow porcelain dish decorated in green, yellow and aubergine enamel over incised lines. Pomegranates with clustered seeds, round peaches and broad leaves curl along branches that sweep around the well, leaving the white ground open.

Look closer: Faint incised wave-like lines are scratched into the white ground between the leaves.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1662–1722

Medium

Porcelain with incised and enamel decoration, susancai ware

Source

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Size

3368 × 3400 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Cleveland Museum of Art, Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund