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Bottle with Dragons

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image depicts a still life titled "Bottle with Dragons" by artist Isamu Noguchi, featuring a white vase with subtle embossed lines. The vase is bulbous at the bottom with the widest point around the middle, tapering up to a long cylindrical neck ending in a funnel-shaped mouth. The base of the vase is circular and flat. The vase appears to have a glossy finish. The background is a plain wall with a dark surface below the vase. The image is in black and white. The vase takes up most of the frame.

Artwork details

Date:
first half of the 18th century
Medium:
"Soft paste" porcelain with incised decoration under glaze (Jingdezhen ware)
Culture:
China
Dimensions:
463 × 625 px
Museum record:
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