Vase
MOA: University of British Columbia
N1.107 a-b
Pair of identical red cloisonné vases with rounded sides, sloping shoulders, and a short neck capped with a brass rim. Each vase features two yellow, green and blue dragons. Scrolls and cloud patterns decorate the rim and base.
- Type of Item vase
- Culture Chinese
- Material brass metal, enamel
- Manufacturing Technique spun, cloisonne, soldered, enamelled
- Measurements height 16.4 cm, diameter 9.2 cm (part a) height 16.3 cm, diameter 9.0 cm (part b)
- Previous Owner Hellen Dunlop, Roy G. Dunlop
- Received from Hellen Dunlop, Roy G. Dunlop, Leon & Thea Koerner Foundation, U.B.C. President's Fund
- Made in China
- Collection Date during 1960
- Ownership Date before April 1962
- Acquisition Date during April 1962
- Item Classes metalwork
- Condition good
- Accession Number 0012/0001 a-b