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Dish
- Place of origin:
Jingdezhen (made)
- Date:
ca. 1700 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Unknown
- Materials and Techniques:
Porcelain painted in enamel colours
- Credit Line:
Salting bequest
- Museum number:
C.1196-1910
- Gallery location:
Ceramics, Room 136, The Curtain Foundation Gallery, case 2, shelf 6
This dish is one of four similarly decorated dishes, all of them painted with figures from the popular Chinese novel 'Water Margin', a story about brave and good-doing bandits comparable to Robin Hood. A distinct feature of the decoration is the absence of any complementary pattern in the background, as if the figures appear on a blank stage without a back-drop. A mark on the base, reading 'Studio to examine one's mind' indicates that the dishes were specially commissioned by a man of letters.