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

Dish

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

Porcelain dish painted in underglaze blue. On the inside with cranes in a lotus pond, lotus border. On the underside of the rim with sprays of bamboo.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted in underglaze blue
Brief description
Dish, porcelain painted in underglaze blue with cranes in a lotus pond, China, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722)
Physical description
Porcelain dish painted in underglaze blue. On the inside with cranes in a lotus pond, lotus border. On the underside of the rim with sprays of bamboo.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 27.3cm
Styles
Marks and inscriptions
The emblem for a painting in a double circle in underglaze blue
Credit line
Given by Sydney Vacher
Production
Register
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Ayers, John. Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1980, Monochrome Plate No. 182 Oriental Ceramics in the V&A, Kodansha, Tokyo, 1975.
Collection
Accession number
C.4-1925

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Record createdDecember 30, 2008
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