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 number33-11/9

MarkingsK'ang Hsi

On View

On view

Gallery Location

Collections

East Asian Art

Terms

DescriptionFamille verte plate with polychrome glaze decoration of birds and flowers. A band of floral designs in red glaze encircles the edge.Gallery Label

Gallery Label

Many types of birds on this plate celebrate an important person’s birthday. Chinese 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.

Provenance

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.

Published References

The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Handbook of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1933)103 (repro.).

The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 2nd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1941), 122, fig. 24 (repro.).

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