Dish
mid 18th century (made)
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Porcelain plate, painted in blue under a crackled glaze. The plate has a narrow slanting rim and is painted with figures of an old man and a youth beside two fir trees in a landscape. Above them is a Chinese inscription which reads: "Beneath the fir-tree (The old man) enquires of the youth (he replies) My master has ascended the hills to search for medicinal herbs."
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Porcelain painted in blue under a crackled glaze |
| Brief description | Dish decorated with two figures in landscape, porcelain painted in blue under a crackled glaze, China, Qing dynasty, mid 18th century (with Chenghua mark) |
| Physical description | Porcelain plate, painted in blue under a crackled glaze. The plate has a narrow slanting rim and is painted with figures of an old man and a youth beside two fir trees in a landscape. Above them is a Chinese inscription which reads: "Beneath the fir-tree (The old man) enquires of the youth (he replies) My master has ascended the hills to search for medicinal herbs." |
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| Object history | "The big bowl, the little blue bowl and the green celadon plate with fisherman in blue all came from the village of Foi-tsai, Hakka speaking territory, 60 miles inland from Swatow. These things said to have been the remnants of the property of a wealthy sugar merchant executed in the North about 100 years ago." See also C.185, 186, 230-1912. |
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| Accession number | C.9-1913 |
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| Record created | December 23, 2008 |
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