Plate
ca. 1989 (made)
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Plate with curved sides, straight rim, thin footring everting on the outside edge. Fired on the footring, which is unglazed. Painted on the top surface with a detailed auspicious scene of goat with long horns (symbol of 'yang'), under a pine tree (venerable old age) with rocks and bamboo, small bushes and verdant grass. On the base is the apocryphal four-character mark in a square cartouche in overglaze blue: 'Yongzheng nian zhi' (made in the Yongzheng period).
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Porcelain painted in overglaze enamels |
| Brief description | Plate, porcelain painted in overglaze enamels with goat and pine tree; possibly painted by Bi Defang, China (Jingdezhen), ca. 1989 |
| Physical description | Plate with curved sides, straight rim, thin footring everting on the outside edge. Fired on the footring, which is unglazed. Painted on the top surface with a detailed auspicious scene of goat with long horns (symbol of 'yang'), under a pine tree (venerable old age) with rocks and bamboo, small bushes and verdant grass. On the base is the apocryphal four-character mark in a square cartouche in overglaze blue: 'Yongzheng nian zhi' (made in the Yongzheng period). |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'Yongzheng nian zhi' (Apocryphal mark in a square cartouche in overglaze blue on the base)
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| Credit line | Given by Mr Simon Kwan |
| Production | Register |
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| Bibliographic reference | Guan, Shanming. Modern Chinese Ceramics from the Simon Kwan Collection 1990, P. 47 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | FE.75-1990 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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