Chinese Dish from the Qing Dynasty in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2011

Object Name: Dish

Culture: Chinese

Date: ca. 1725–30

Medium: Hard-paste porcelain

Dimensions: Diam. 12 3/8 in. (31.4 cm.)

Classification: Ceramics-Porcelain-Export

Credit Line: The Hans Syz Collection, Gift of Stephan B. Syz and John D. Syz, 1995

Accession Number: 1995.268.76

Description:

In addition to the standard motif of rocks, flowers, and birds, several of the Eight Treasures—which originated in Buddhist art but are here employed as general symbols of good fortune—decorate the molded rim of the plate, whose shape was copied from contemporaneous French silver.


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