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Dish with Lotus Pond

early 18th century
Not on view
The lotuses and water were painted using blue outlines under the glaze and colored enamels over the glaze. This complicated technique, which began in China in the fifteenth century, was refined in the eighteenth and is often known as doucai, or joined colors.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Dish with Lotus Pond
  • Period: Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Yongzheng mark and period (1723–35)
  • Date: early 18th century
  • Culture: China
  • Medium: Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under and colored enamels over transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware)
  • Dimensions: Diam. 7 in. (17.8 cm)
  • Classification: Ceramics
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1925
  • Object Number: 25.35.5
  • Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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