Dish with design of Three Friends of Winter
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Object Details
- Description
- Dish, low, with rounded sides; one chip on rim; hair-line crack.
- Clay: white porcelain.
- Glaze: clear, feldspathic; a few pinholes and impurity flecks.
- Decoration: painted in underglaze cobalt blue of deep tone, copying a traditional design of the Ch'eng-hua period. See F1951.10 and .11. Center inside, "three friends of winter" (pine, plum, and bamboo) with garden rock, and fungus, enclosed by double line band which is repeated at rim. Outside, following model, a scene of figures on a garden terrace with plants and trees.
- Inscriptions
- Six character Kuang-hsu mark in underglaze blue on base.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Credit Line
- Anonymous gift
- 1875-1908
- Period
- Qing dynasty, Guangxu reign
- Accession Number
- F1978.45
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Porcelain with cobalt pigment under clear glaze
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 4.2 x 17.8 x 17.8 cm (1 5/8 x 7 x 7 in)
- Style
- Jingdezhen ware
- Origin
- Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- See more items in
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Topic
- ceramic
- pine tree
- Jingdezhen ware
- bamboo
- Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911)
- Guangxu reign (1875 - 1908)
- cobalt pigment
- China
- porcelain
- Chinese Art
- Record ID
- fsg_F1978.45
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye3e1c5f4b6-6f98-44af-8f84-3bb155ab7fc2
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