Dish with scene of a woman and children
Qing-dynasty porcelains painted with overglaze enamels are often catalogued and dated according to the colors of their palettes using a system first devised in the nineteenth century by a French scholar. Porcelains painted in shades of pink are fittingly known as famille rose. In this dish—whose subject is the popular theme of a woman and children surrounded by luxuries—pink is used for the children's clothing and in one of the borders that frames the charming scene.
Artwork Details
- 清 景德鎮窯粉彩仕女童子盤
- Title: Dish with scene of a woman and children
- Period: Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
- Date: mid-18th century
- Culture: China
- Medium: Porcelain painted with overglaze polychrome enamels and gold (Jingdezhen ware)
- Dimensions: H. 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm); Diam. 8 3/8 in. (21.3 cm); Diam. of foot: 4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm)
- Classification: Ceramics
- Credit Line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
- Object Number: 14.40.252
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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