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Dish

Dish

  • Place of origin:

    Jingdezhen (made)

  • Date:

    1662-1722 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Unknown

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Porcelain painted in overglaze enamels and gilded

  • Credit Line:

    Salting Bequest

  • Museum number:

    C.1205-1910

  • Gallery location:

    Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery, case 9, shelf 1

Physical description

Dish of porcelain. Wavy edge. Painted with overglaze enamels in the famille verte palette and gilded. In the middle, five figures outside a pavilion regarding a party of quails. Border of eight stork medallions and sixteen ruyi heads set at equal intervals on a diaper ground. On the underside the foot-ring is surrounded by moulded panels edged by oblique wavy lines; over these are painted three sprays of flowers.

Place of Origin

Jingdezhen (made)

Date

1662-1722 (made)

Artist/maker

Unknown

Materials and Techniques

Porcelain painted in overglaze enamels and gilded

Marks and inscriptions

An artemisia leaf in a double circle, in underglaze blue

Dimensions

Diameter: 36.8 cm

Descriptive line

Dish, porcelain painted with overglaze enamels in the famille verte palette and gilded, China, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722)

Production Note

Register

Materials

Porcelain

Techniques

Painted; Glazed; Gilded

Subjects depicted

Flowers; Figures; Pavilions (garden structures); Diaper-work; Ruyi; Stork (bird)

Categories

Ceramics; Porcelain

Collection

East Asia Collection

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