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Bowl with decoration of dragons in overglaze red enamel over blue-and-white ground

Chinese
Qing dynasty, last year of the Daoguang period
dated 1850
Object Place: China

Medium/Technique Porcelain, Jingdezhen ware
Credit Line John Gardner Coolidge Collection
Accession Number47.406
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsCeramicsPorcelain

Marks Daoguang gengxu nian zhi (Created in the Genxu year [1850] of the Daoguang period; see unicode entry for Chinese characters)
道光庚戌年製
ProvenanceBy 1947, Mrs. John Gardner (Helen S.) Coolidge (d. 1962), Boston; 1947, gift of Coolidge to the MFA. (Accession date: April 10, 1947)