Wikipedia

File:Endless knot Red lacquerware dish Ming Dynasty.jpg

Endless_knot_Red_lacquerware_dish_Ming_Dynasty.jpg (544 × 432 pixels, file size: 112 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

Description

Cropped version of File:Red lacquerware dish, Ming Dynasty.jpg to show "Endless Knot" motif in center.

Original description of File:Red lacquerware dish, Ming Dynasty.jpg -

A Chinese dish made of red lacquer over wood, from the Ming Dynasty, dated late 15th to mid 16th century. In the center design of this dish, two archaistic carved dragons without scales twist their bodies in reach of an endless knot, a symbol of longevity in Chinese culture. To make this dish even more auspicious, on the reverse side there is a carved design of chrysanthemums, flowers which are representative of long life in Chinese culture. The designs of billowing waves and lotus flowers carved into the background represent a watery environment, which the Chinese believed was the dragon's natural habitat. Other designs include cattails, a fish, and a crab.
Date
Source

Self-made at the Freer and Sackler Galleries, Washington D.C.

image extraction process
This file has been extracted from another file
: Red lacquerware dish, Ming Dynasty.jpg
original file
Author User:PericlesofAthens
Other versions File:Red lacquerware dish, Ming Dynasty.jpg ; for an abstract geometric version of the knot symbol, see File:Endless-knot-49-crossings.svg

Licensing

I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses:
GNU head Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International, 3.0 Unported, 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
You may select the license of your choice.

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

In dieser Datei abgebildete Objekte

depicts

inception

29 June 2008

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current15:08, 24 January 2010Thumbnail for version as of 15:08, 24 January 2010544 × 432 (112 KB)AnonMoos== {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information |Description=Cropped version of File:Red lacquerware dish, Ming Dynasty.jpg to shown "Endless Knot" motif in center. Original description of File:Red lacquerware dish, Ming Dynasty.jpg - :A Chinese dish ma

The following 2 pages use this file:

Global file usage

The following other wikis use this file:

Metadata

This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it.

If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Endless_knot_Red_lacquerware_dish_Ming_Dynasty.jpg"