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Dish

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

Dish of porcelain, painted in famille rose style with coloured enamels. In the middle, in a small circular panel, hare and a female Daoist figure carrying a ruyi sceptre; on either side, lobed and scrolled panels with peonies and foliage and borders of trellis diaper in red line; between the panels qilins in pink and blue, one on each side, and lotus flowers, on a yellow ground diapered with greyish black scrolled foliage.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Porcelain
Object type
Dish
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted in coloured enamels
Porcelain
Painted
Brief description
Dish, porcelain painted in famille rose style with coloured enamels, China (Jingdezhen), Qing dynasty, mid 18th century
Physical description
Dish of porcelain, painted in famille rose style with coloured enamels. In the middle, in a small circular panel, hare and a female Daoist figure carrying a ruyi sceptre; on either side, lobed and scrolled panels with peonies and foliage and borders of trellis diaper in red line; between the panels qilins in pink and blue, one on each side, and lotus flowers, on a yellow ground diapered with greyish black scrolled foliage.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 20.6cm
Styles
Qing
Famille Rose
Marks and inscriptions
Transliteration
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Credit line
W. W. Aston Bequest
Production
Register
Subjects depicted
Daoist Immortals
Hares
Ruyi
Peonies
Qilin
Lotus Flowers
Scrolling Foliage
Diaper-Work
Collection
East Asia Collection
Accession number
C.1095-1917

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O493912/dish-unknown/
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