Plate with a Lion

Gallery 335, Asian Art, third floor

Main Building

Plate with a Lion

c. 1680-1700

Artist/maker unknown, Dutch

The lion depicted within a Chinese-style landscape may be symbolic of the House of Orange—a family that played a pivotal role in the political life of the Netherlands—since a lion is featured in its coat of arms. The artist who painted this plate had obviously never seen a real lion.

Gallery 335, Asian Art, third floor

Object Details

Title:

Plate with a Lion

Date:

c. 1680-1700

Artist:

Artist/maker unknown, Dutch

Medium:

Tin-glazed earthenware with blue decoration

Dimensions:

1 7/8 × 11 3/4 inches (4.8 × 29.8 cm)

Classification:

Containers

Credit Line:

Bequest of Emmeline Reed Bedell for the Bradbury Bedell Memorial Collection, 1921

Accession Number:

1921-3-104

Geography:

Made in Delft, Netherlands, Europe

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Gallery 335, Asian Art, third floor

Main Building

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