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Dish

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

Dish of porcelain, painted in underglaze blue. In the middle, a lotus plant in a small medallion. Surrounding it, reserved on a clouded blue ground, are panels of cloud-scroll form, containing stylised flowers and alternately radiating outwards from the middle and pointing inwards from the rim. On the rim, the same pattern. Under the rim, a band of formal lotus petals.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Porcelain
Object type
Dish
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted in underglaze blue
Porcelain
Cobalt Oxide
Glazed
Painted
Blue and White
Brief description
Dish, porcelain painted in underglaze blue, China, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722)
Physical description
Dish of porcelain, painted in underglaze blue. In the middle, a lotus plant in a small medallion. Surrounding it, reserved on a clouded blue ground, are panels of cloud-scroll form, containing stylised flowers and alternately radiating outwards from the middle and pointing inwards from the rim. On the rim, the same pattern. Under the rim, a band of formal lotus petals.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 22.2cm
Styles
Kangxi
Blue and White (Asia)
Marks and inscriptions
  • An incense burner in a double circle in underglaze blue
  • Transliteration
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Credit line
Salting Bequest
Object history
Bequeathed by Mr. George Salting, accessioned in 1910. This acquisition information reflects that found in the Asia Department registers, as part of a 2022 provenance research project.
Production
Register
Subjects depicted
Lotus
Cloud Scrolls
Flowers
Other number
Loan no. 835
Collection
East Asia Collection
Accession number
C.607-1910

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Record createdFebruary 20, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O190287/dish-unknown/
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