Dish
Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK, 1948.
Emperors, Scholars and Temples: Tastemakers of China’s Ming and Qing Dynasties, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, August 12, 2016 – July 9, 2017.
This dish is decorated with an ornamental garden rock and sprays of peonies. The rock was painted using cobalt oxide applied directly on the porcelain body. The piece was then glazed and fired at a temperature of about 2,300 degrees Fahrenheit. After firing, overglaze enamel colors were added for the leaves and flowers and refired at a lower temperature. This combination of underglaze and overglaze decoration, known as “joined colors,” is highly prized by connoisseurs.
T. Y. King;
Purchased from T. Y. King by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1946.
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 300. (repro.).
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 374, no. 279. (repro.).
