Plate
Original Language Title清康熙 五彩盤
CultureChinese
DateQing dynasty (1644-1911)
MediumPorcelain
DimensionsOverall: 10 inches (25.4 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number33-11/8
On View
On viewGallery Location
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Collections
DescriptionFamille verte plate with polychrome glaze decoration of birds and flowers. A band of floral designs in red glaze encircles the edge.Gallery LabelChinese artists often depict a group of diverse birds to represent a collective number of 100 individuals paying homage to an honoree. Each plate’s rim is inscribed with wan shou wu jiang 萬壽無疆: May you have ten thousand years of longevity without boundary.
With C. T. Loo & Co., New York, no. C1003, by January 25, 1933 [1];
Purchased from C. T. Loo & Co. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.
NOTES:
[1] Nelson-Atkins Archives, RG80-05 William Rockhill Nelson Trust Records, box 9, folder 39.
Margaret Medley, The Chinese Potter, A Practical History of Chinese Ceramics (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1976), 243, fig. 188. [repro.]
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