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Dish
- Place of origin:
Jingdezhen (made)
- Date:
1723-1735 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Unknown
- Materials and Techniques:
Porcelain, painted in underglaze blue and overglaze enamels
- Credit Line:
Salting Bequest
- Museum number:
C.1352-1910
- Gallery location:
Ceramics, Room 136, The Curtain Foundation Gallery, case 8, shelf 3
Physical description
Dish of porcelain. Saucer-shaped. Decorated in doucai style in underglaze blue and overglaze enamel colours, with waterfowl and lotuses. On the rim, in blue, an inscription in Tibetan, meaning: "Excellent disciple, may the Three Blessed Ones give much bliss! By day bliss, by night bliss, may bliss be in the tent of the disciple!" Under the rim, a lotus, a rush and a waterfowl, four times repeated.
Place of Origin
Jingdezhen (made)
Date
1723-1735 (made)
Artist/maker
Unknown
Materials and Techniques
Porcelain, painted in underglaze blue and overglaze enamels
Marks and inscriptions
'da ming Xuande nian zhi' in a double circle, in underglaze blue
Made in the Xuande period of the great Ming dynasty
Dimensions
Diameter: 21.6 cm
Descriptive line
Dish, porcelain decorated in doucai style in underglaze blue and overglaze enamel colours, China, Qing dynasty, Yongzheng period (with Xuande mark)
Production Note
Register
Materials
Porcelain
Techniques
Painted; Glazed
Subjects depicted
Rush; Lotus flowers; Waterfowl
Categories
Ceramics; Porcelain
Collection
East Asia Collection