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14 août 2012

Dish with Birds and Flowers on Fan, ca. 1730–50. Qing dynasty (1644–1911)

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Dish with Birds and Flowers on Fan, ca. 1730–50. Qing dynasty (1644–1911). Porcelain painted in overglaze famille rose enamels and gold (and possibly silver). Diam. of rim: 7 7/8 in. (20 cm). 79.2.590. Purchase by subscription, 1879© 2000–2012 The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The layering of designs on this dish illustrates the dense and precise decoration that typifies the art of the Qianlong period in China. A short-handled fan with a bird perched on a flowering branch fills the center of this small plate. The fan is painted above large flowers in pink and green that are, in turn, placed against a lush background of smaller blossoms in black (possibly silver) and white. The additional designs on the edges of the fan and the rim of the plate are also characteristic of the eighteenth century.

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