Physical description
'Eggshell' porcelain dish decorated in overglaze polychrome enamels and gold with a domestic scene depicting a seated woman with one child on her knees and another child standing next to her and holding two peaches; the scene is enclosed in a leaf-shaped panel reserved on a Y-diaper ground painted in blue enamel, framed by a border of hexagon diaper pattern in pink. Round the rim a narrow border of lozenge diaper in light green, and a wider border of floral scrolls in gold.
Place of Origin
China (made)
Date
ca. 1730-1735 (made)
Artist/maker
Unknown
Materials and Techniques
Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels and gold
Dimensions
Diameter: 21.4 cm
Descriptive line
Porcelain dish painted in overglaze polychrome enamels and gold, China, Qing dynasty, ca. 1730-35
Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)
Kerr, Rose and Luisa E. Mengoni Chinese Export Ceramics London: V&A Publishing, 2011, pp.34-35, pl.36
Materials
Porcelain
Techniques
Painted; Gilded
Subjects depicted
Furniture; Scrolls; Woman; Children; Diaper; Peaches
Categories
Ceramics; Porcelain
Collection
East Asia Collection