Plate

DATE:: c. 1725–1730
MATERIAL AND TECHNIQUE:: Porcelain with overglaze famille verte enamels
CLASSIFICATION:: Containers
DIMENSIONS:: Overall: 2 3/16 x 17 3/4 x 17 3/4 in. (5.56 x 45.09 x 45.09 cm)
DEPARTMENT:: Decorative Arts and Design
LOCATION:: Wendy and Emery Reves Collection - Porcelain , Level 3
CREDIT LINE:: Dallas Museum of Art, The Wendy and Emery Reves Collection
COPYRIGHT:: Image courtesy Dallas Museum of Art.
OBJECT NUMBER:: 1985.R.1086

General Description

This octagonal plate is one of three of the same pattern in the Reves Collection (see 1985.R.860 and 1985.R.1085), It is a well painted continuation of the late K'and Hsi famille verte palette of translucent green, iron-red, and purple. The ridged border derives from a European silver dish, though the octagonal shape originated with Japanese porcelain. There are two long-tailed birds in the central scene amidst impossibly large flowers, a railing, a tree, and four iron-red long-tailed birds in the seeded green border alternating with groups of iron-red peonies. Plates such as these were probably meant for display rather than use.

Adapted from

Dallas Museum of Art, The Wendy and Emery Reves Collection (Dallas, Texas: Dallas Museum of Art, 1985), 188.
Label text, Reves Galleries, Porcelain Gallery, 2018