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Dish

1736-1795 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Jingdezhen (made)

Dish of porcelain, painted with overglaze enamels in the famille rose palette. In the deep centre are flowering pomegranate and prunus trees. The rim has a border with outline in the form of a succession of tops of the pomegranate fruit, filled in with two alternating diaper patterns on pink and turquoise-blue, the interspaces being filled in with prunus-blossoms on a ground of close spirals.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Porcelain
Object type
Dish
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted in overglaze enamels
Porcelain
Painted
Glazed
Brief description
Dish, porcelain painted with overglaze enamels in the famille rose palette, China, Qing dynasty, Qianlong period (1736-1795)
Physical description
Dish of porcelain, painted with overglaze enamels in the famille rose palette. In the deep centre are flowering pomegranate and prunus trees. The rim has a border with outline in the form of a succession of tops of the pomegranate fruit, filled in with two alternating diaper patterns on pink and turquoise-blue, the interspaces being filled in with prunus-blossoms on a ground of close spirals.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 25.1cm
Styles
Qianlong
Famille Rose
Marks and inscriptions
Transliteration
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Credit line
Bequeathed by Mrs Marie Adeline Dumergue
Object history
Bequeathed by Mrs. Marie Adeline Dumergue, accessioned in 1912. This acquisition information reflects that found in the Asia Department registers, as part of a 2022 provenance research project.
Production
Register
Subjects depicted
Pomegranates (Fruit)
Prunus Tree
Diaper-Work
Scrolls (Motifs)
Collection
East Asia Collection
Accession number
C.42-1912

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O493729/dish-unknown/
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