Foliated dish with flowers and fruits

Wan Yannian Chinese

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 221

This dish is from a group of rare examples of Chinese painted enamel made for the Japanese market. Written in archaic seal script, the mark on the bottom reads: “made in the period of Man’en.” The period of Man’en, a reign of the Japanese Emperor Komei (1831–1867), only spanned from 1860 through 1861, which helps to date this dish.

Foliated dish with flowers and fruits, Wan Yannian (Chinese, active late 18th–early 19th century), Painted enamel on copper alloy, China

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Foliated dish with flowers and fruits, Wan Yannian (Chinese, active late 18th–early 19th century), Painted enamel on copper alloy, China
Foliated dish with flowers and fruits, Wan Yannian (Chinese, active late 18th–early 19th century), Painted enamel on copper alloy, China

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