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Dish

Dish

  • Place of origin:

    Jingdezhen (made)

  • Date:

    18th century (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Unknown

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Porcelain painted in underglaze blue

  • Credit Line:

    Given by Sydney Vacher

  • Museum number:

    C.476-1918

  • Gallery location:

    Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery, case 7, shelf 1

Physical description

Dish of porcelain, with deep well, narrow flat rim and wavy edge. Painted in the middle with a landscape showing a tree and a grasshopper. The sides divided into four panels of lambrequin alternated hatched and painted with formal dragon masks. On the reverse similar panels painted with quatrefoils.

Place of Origin

Jingdezhen (made)

Date

18th century (made)

Artist/maker

Unknown

Materials and Techniques

Porcelain painted in underglaze blue

Dimensions

Diameter: 19.1 cm

Descriptive line

Dish, porcelain painted in underglaze blue, China (Jingdezhen), Qing dynasty, 18th century

Production Note

Register

Materials

Porcelain

Techniques

Blue and white

Subjects depicted

Landscapes; Grasshopper; Dragons

Categories

Ceramics; Porcelain

Collection

East Asia Collection

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