Blue Dragon Bowl
Dublin Core
Title
Blue Dragon Bowl
Subject
[no text]
Description
Filled with "sulphur-yellow roses" in the text (Wilde 92). This piece seems to be one of the more aesthetic pieces in Dorian's home. It seems to correspond with aestheticism's interest in Eastern art and design, blue and white porcelain, and yellow color (though the flowers are not sunflowers, the roses are a proper color for an aesthete).
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The Victoria and Albert Museum database describes the dragon bowl in the image as porcelain, "painted in underglaze blue with four panels containing alternately a dragon chasing a pearl and a phoenix among clouds; on the bottom inside a phoenix among clouds in a four-lobed medallion." This piece is perhaps a match for what Dorian's bowl would have looked like, as it matches the color criteria and was made in Jingdezhen, China.
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The Victoria and Albert Museum database describes the dragon bowl in the image as porcelain, "painted in underglaze blue with four panels containing alternately a dragon chasing a pearl and a phoenix among clouds; on the bottom inside a phoenix among clouds in a four-lobed medallion." This piece is perhaps a match for what Dorian's bowl would have looked like, as it matches the color criteria and was made in Jingdezhen, China.
Creator
Oscar Wilde
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Unkown maker
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Unkown maker
Source
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Victoria and Albert Museum collection: http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O437808/bowl-unknown/
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Victoria and Albert Museum collection: http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O437808/bowl-unknown/
Publisher
Penguin Books
Date
Wilde's text/ 1891
Penguin/ 2000
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Porcelain Bowl/ early 18th century
Penguin/ 2000
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Porcelain Bowl/ early 18th century
Contributor
Hannah Phillips
Rights
Penguin Books
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Victoria and Albert Museum, London
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Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Relation
[no text]
Format
[no text]
Language
[no text]
Type
Text and still image
Identifier
[no text]
Coverage
[no text]
Citation
Oscar Wilde
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Unkown maker, “Blue Dragon Bowl,” Objects and Interiority in Dorian Gray, accessed April 25, 2024, https://doriangrayarchiveeng578.omeka.net/items/show/7.