Dish with Dragons and Lotuses

The steeply inclined walls of this circular, shallow dish rise from the broad, flat floor to the foliated lip. Eleven deep vertical grooves, imparted with a tool with rounded end, ...

The concave walls of this small dish rise from the broad, flat floor to the bracketed lip, which terminates in a raised edge with eight points. A stylized chrysanthemum blossom emb...

The interior of this thickly potted dish follows a continuous, parabolic curve; the exterior displays a thickened lip and a wide, straight-cut footring in the shape of a jade bi di...

The design of this dish incorporates two ingeniously painted floral sprays. Laden with blossoms, the longer stem rises up the middle, angles sharply downward, and then encircles th...

The off-white slip that covers this dish has been incised with a complicated design further elaborated in green, yellow, and purplish brown. An equestrian image fills the center of...

Painted with ink and colored pigments on paper, this magnificent eight-panel folding screen boasts a continuous scene of a lotus pond with tall, luxuriant stalks of lotus flowers, ...

This green-splashed dish,represents the glazed luxury wares being produced in Abbasid Iraq by the late eighth to early ninth century. The rounded walls and slightly everted rim of ...