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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 136, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Dish

1662-1722 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Large dish painted in polychrome enamels of the famille verte palette with a qilin and a phoemix in a central medallion, encircle by a decorative band containing animals, flowers and rocks, and another band with butterlies in cartouches reserved against a honey-comb pattern


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels
Brief description
Cer, China, Qing, polychrome
Physical description
Large dish painted in polychrome enamels of the famille verte palette with a qilin and a phoemix in a central medallion, encircle by a decorative band containing animals, flowers and rocks, and another band with butterlies in cartouches reserved against a honey-comb pattern
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 37cm
Styles
Credit line
Salting Bequest
Object history
Bequeathed by Mr. George Salting, accessioned in 1910. This acquisition information reflects that found in the Asia Department registers, as part of a 2022 provenance research project.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.1180-1910

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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