Dish (one of a pair)

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Dish (one of a pair)

c. 1730-1750

Artist/maker unknown, Chinese

This eggshell porcelain dish is decorated in a range of pastel shades of overglaze enamels popular in China in the early eighteenth century. The combination of the rooster and peony blossoms is a rebus (a visual riddle in which the items pictured have names that sound like a word or phrase) conveying wishes for receiving official rank and honor, or for wealth, rank, and good fortune.

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Object Details

Title:

Dish (one of a pair)

Date:

c. 1730-1750

Artist:

Artist/maker unknown, Chinese

Medium:

Porcelain with overglaze enamel (Famille Rose) and gilt decoration

Dimensions:

1 3/8 x 7 7/8 inches (3.5 x 20 cm)

Classification:

Containers

Credit Line:

The Alfred and Margaret Caspary Memorial Gift, 1955

Accession Number:

1955-50-35

Geography:

Made in China, Asia

Context:

Dynasty: Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)

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