Dish with Female and Attendant (c. 1713): Art, History and Details
Dish with Female and Attendant at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1713, porcelain with famille verte overglaze enamel decoration. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Dish with Female and Attendant (c. 1713) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
On the flattened rim of this dish is a band of ironred enamel decoration with the Chinese characters Wanshou wujiang, meaning "Long life without limit." This piece belongs to a set of particularly fine porcelains with the same inscription, which are thought to have been made for the Kangxi emperor's 60th birthday in 1713.
Object facts
- Title: Dish with Female and Attendant
- Date: c. 1713
- Culture: China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), Kangxi mark and period (1662-1722)
- Type: Ceramic
- Technique: porcelain with famille verte overglaze enamel decoration
- Dimensions: Diameter: 24.6 cm (9 11/16 in.)
- Collection: China - Qing Dynasty
- Department: Chinese Art
- Accession number: 1964.220
Collection credit
Severance and Greta Millikin Collection
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