Large Octagonal Red and Green Plate with Birds on Interior
- DATE:
- 17th century
- MATERIAL AND TECHNIQUE:
- Porcelain
- CLASSIFICATION:
- Containers
- DIMENSIONS:
- 2 1/4 × 16 3/4 × 16 1/2 in. (5.72 × 42.55 × 41.91 cm)
- DEPARTMENT:
- Decorative Arts and Design
- LOCATION:
- Wendy and Emery Reves Collection - Dining Room, 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.860
General Description
This octagonal plate is one of three of the same pattern in the Reves Collection (see 1985.R.1085 and 1985.R.1086), It is a well painted continuation of the late K'ang 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
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Dallas Museum of Art, The Wendy and Emery Reves Collection (Dallas, Texas: Dallas Museum of Art, 1985), 188.
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Label text, Reves Galleries, Porcelain Gallery, 2018
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