Description
Instead of depicting a real landscape, the artist focused on the rhythmic forces of nature and the movement of energy, using the scrolling form as a symbol common to all changes in nature: cloud vapors, waves, and mountains alike. Here a dragon hovers among sweeping scrolls.
Provenance
(Donald J. Wineman, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) (?–1989); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1989–)
Accession Number
1989.15
Medium
earthenware with slip and painted decoration
Dimensions
Overall: 48.2 cm (19 in.)
Classification
Ceramic
Credit Line
The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
