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ca. 1978-1985 (made)
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This porcelain dish depicts a girl dressed in the Dai ethnic costume of southern Yunnan. It is painted in the style of the twentieth-century artist Cheng Shifa (1921-2007). National minorities were popular as painting subject matter in China during the late 1970s and 1980s. They were shown as the colourfully exotic other of the Han ethnic majority.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Porcelain, painted in overglaze enamels |
| Brief description | Porcelain dish painted in enamels, depicting a girl and deer, China, ca. 1978-85 |
| Physical description | Dish made of porcelain, decorated in overglaze black, red, brown, green, pink, mauve, and blue with a calligraphically-painted scene of a girl in Dai ethnic costume with a basket of lotus and bananas on her back, holding a sprig of spring blossom. A female deer sits at her side, a male deer paces in the foreground. To the right is a red seadmark. Mark on base. |
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| Credit line | Given by Simon Kwan |
| Object history | Given by Simon Kwan, Hong Kong |
| Summary | This porcelain dish depicts a girl dressed in the Dai ethnic costume of southern Yunnan. It is painted in the style of the twentieth-century artist Cheng Shifa (1921-2007). National minorities were popular as painting subject matter in China during the late 1970s and 1980s. They were shown as the colourfully exotic other of the Han ethnic majority. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | FE.31-1990 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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