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Dish (Platter)
1755-1765
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
China; Asia
Materials
- Porcelain (hard-paste)
- Lime (alkaline) glaze
Museum Object Number
2014.0016.048
Credit Line/Donor
Gift of Daniel and Serga Nadler
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Object Number
2014.0016.048
Object Name
Dish (Platter)
Category
Ceramics - The Daniel and Serga Nadler Collection
Place of Origin
China; Asia
Date
1755-1765
Subject(s)
- India market (Chinese export)
Materials
- Porcelain (hard-paste)
- Lime (alkaline) glaze
Dimensions (inches)
2.25 (H) x 12.25 (W) x 15 (L)
Dimensions (centimeters)
5.715 (H) x 31.115 (W) x 38.1 (L)
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Beurdeley, Michel & Raindre, Guy. 1986 Qing Porcelain: Famille Verte, Famille Rose 1644-1912.
• Tureen in famille rose with somewhat similar elephant and mahout (rider), not bianco-sopra bianco: p. 234, no. 330, "obviously part of a service made for colonial market in British India," loosly spaced floral sprigs form ground. c. 1785-1800Catalogue: S. Marchant & Son. Recent Acquisitions 2003.
• Pair of relief-decorated polychrome enameled oval dishes, possibly from same service: p. 68, no. 46, Qianlong dynasty (1736-95) with relief shell-like motifs at narrow ends. Notes comparable wares.Book: Kerr, Rose & Mengoni, Louisa E. 2011 Chinese Export Ceramics.
• Plate in same pattern: p. 114, no. 114, in discussion of Indian market wares. "Plate with...an elephant and Mahout," c. 1760Book: Litzenburg, Thomas V. & Bailey, Ann T. 2003 Chinese Export Porcelain in the Reeves Center Collection at Washington and Lee University. 288 p.
• Plate in much the same pattern: p. 67, no. 50, c. 1760Book: Brawer, Catharine Coleman. 1992 Chinese Export Porcelain from the Ethel (Mrs. Julius) Liebman and Arthur L. Liebman Porcelain Collection.
• Soup plate in the same pattern: p. 115, no. 88, noting "subject of mahout and elephant appeared with several border designs between 1760 and 1790 and was popular well into the nineteenth century." Indian market, c. 1760