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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Dish

ca. 1730-1735 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

'Eggshell' porcelain dish decorated in overglaze polychrome enamels and gold with a domestic scene depicting a seated woman with one child on her knees and another child standing next to her and holding two peaches; the scene is enclosed in a leaf-shaped panel reserved on a Y-diaper ground painted in blue enamel, framed by a border of hexagon diaper pattern in pink. Round the rim a narrow border of lozenge diaper in light green, and a wider border of floral scrolls in gold.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels and gold
Brief description
Porcelain dish painted in overglaze polychrome enamels and gold, China, Qing dynasty, ca. 1730-35
Physical description
'Eggshell' porcelain dish decorated in overglaze polychrome enamels and gold with a domestic scene depicting a seated woman with one child on her knees and another child standing next to her and holding two peaches; the scene is enclosed in a leaf-shaped panel reserved on a Y-diaper ground painted in blue enamel, framed by a border of hexagon diaper pattern in pink. Round the rim a narrow border of lozenge diaper in light green, and a wider border of floral scrolls in gold.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 21.4cm
From register
Styles
Credit line
Gulland Bequest
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Kerr, Rose and Luisa E. Mengoni Chinese Export Ceramics London: V&A Publishing, 2011, pp.34-35, pl.36
Collection
Accession number
CIRC.432-1931

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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