DINNER PLATE FROM PEONY SERVICE
Creator(s): Unknown
Currently in storage
About this object
This dinner plate is decorated with famille rose enamels and gilding to depict a bouquet of peonies and asters tied by a ribbon in the center surrounded by six floating stylized sprays representing peonies, magnolias, and prunus blossoms. The rim decoration includes reserved oblong medallions of stylized flowers including peonies, chrysanthemums, lotuses, day lilies, and cone flowers encircled by gilded addorsed foliate scrolls alternating with purplish-mauve trellis patterns with quartrefoils encircled by gilded addorsed foliate scrolls, all surrounded by a pink trellis ground. The edge of the slightly scalloped plate is gilded and the footring bears fine knife marks.
- Object name:
- DINNER PLATE FROM PEONY SERVICE
- Made from:
- Porcelain with famille rose enamels and gilding
- Made in:
- Guangzhou, China
- Date made:
- 1770-1780
- Size:
- 22.9 cm (9 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 26.266.25
- Class:
- CERAMICS
- Signature marks:
- Credit line:
- Gift of Eleanor Close Barzin, 1974