Featured Chinese Dragon Plate, raised surface decoration, what is this?

Discussion in 'Antique Discussion' started by 3798dmmnn, May 29, 2025.

  1. 3798dmmnn

    3798dmmnn Active Member

    Hi,
    Here's a decorative round porcelain plate with a great Chinese Dragon on it. Mr Dragon is raised up out of the surface of the bowl, I do not know what sort of technique this is. Does anyone know how this was done, what sort of material was used?

    round raised draong small.jpeg one dragpn plate underside small.jpeg
     
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  2. Mattin NJ

    Mattin NJ Member

    I think it's called Moriage. Which I think may mean "toothpaste" in Chinese.
     
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  3. 3798dmmnn

    3798dmmnn Active Member

    You are right - this is a thing! I started to Google "moriage" and the search engine suggested "Moriage Dragonware"

    hardware, software - Dragonware!!
     
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  4. 3798dmmnn

    3798dmmnn Active Member

    Sadly the article says the market was "Flooded with fakes" !
     
  5. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    This is real dragonware; the question is the age. I've never seen one with a blue background before, but that doesn't mean much.
     
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  6. Marote

    Marote Well-Known Member

    On Gotheborg
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  7. kentworld

    kentworld Well-Known Member

    I like the blue background and that's one cool dragon! Very nice.
     
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  8. 916Bulldogs123

    916Bulldogs123 Well-Known Member

    Very cool!
    Did anyone notice the teapot on Gotheborg matches the op's plate?
    Mikey
     
  9. Marote

    Marote Well-Known Member

    I did :smug:
     
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  10. Boland

    Boland Well-Known Member

    Cool looking plate.
    I would have thought: ‘not old reproduction’ That blue is something different and really makes the dragon ‘pop’
     
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  11. Bev aka thelmasstuff

    Bev aka thelmasstuff Colored pencil artist extraordinaire ;)

    It's nice, but it depends on what you mean by "old". I'm 76 so a lot of younger folk will rightly say something from the 60s is "antique" when to me it's just something from my teenage years!
     
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