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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Dish

18th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

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.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted in underglaze blue
Brief description
Dish, porcelain painted in underglaze blue, China (Jingdezhen), Qing dynasty, 18th century
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.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 19.1cm
Styles
Credit line
Given by Sydney Vacher
Production
Register
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.476-1918

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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