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

Dish

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

Saucer-shaped dish, decorated with a boar hunt; a huntsman on the left is spearing the boar towards which other huntsmen are riding from the right; the background is of a forest.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted in overglaze enamels and gilt
Brief description
Dish, porcelain, showing a boar-hunt, painted in colours, Chinese, mid 18th century
Physical description
Saucer-shaped dish, decorated with a boar hunt; a huntsman on the left is spearing the boar towards which other huntsmen are riding from the right; the background is of a forest.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 21.59cm
Styles
Credit line
Bequeathed by W. G. Gulland
Historical context
The design is after an engraving by the Italian painter Antonio Tempesta.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Kerr, Rose and Luisa E. Mengoni Chinese Export Ceramics London: V&A Publishing, 2011, p.74, pl.99
Collection
Accession number
C.224-1931

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Record createdFebruary 25, 2003
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