Famille verte plate with broad orange border Qing

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Manager ID

214

Title

Famille verte plate with broad orange border Qing dynasty, Yongzheng mark and period (1723-35)

Short title

Famille verte plate with broad orange border Qing

Record number

BATEA : 200

Simple name

dish

Classified name

ceramic; porcelain; polychrome; enamel; Qing; Yongzheng; dish; famille verte; landscape; China; imperial; period mark; figure; tree; overglaze; white; 18th century

Description

Description part summary

A plate with rounded sides, the centre decorated in famille verte enamels in Chinese taste with a scholar resting with a qin beside a stream, pine tree and a rock. The cavetto has an orange overglaze, the reverse is plain. Note the use here of overglaze white enamel for the stream. The use of white overglaze enamel was an innovation of circa 1720. Before then the white porcelain,on which the overglaze enamels were placed, was used for the white portions of the design.

Description material

porcelain

Description condition

good

Description Colour

Aspect	Colour

body	white
decoration	red, green, yellow, blue, brown and white enamel"

Description length

Description height

4cm

Description diameter

20cm

Description width

Description depth

Description inscription

6 character kaishu Yongzheng mark within double circles in underglaze blue on base

Description notes

Gallery location

Gallery 2

Labels

Subjects

ceramic > enamel

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