Foliated dish with flowers and fruits
This is a rare example of Chinese painted enamel that bears its maker’s mark. Written in an archaic seal script, the mark on the bottom reads “made by Wan Yannian.” Historical documents tell us little about this artist or his workshop, but based on the style of his other pieces, the metalworker was likely active in the Canton area during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Artwork Details
- 清中期 銅胎畫琺瑯“萬延年製”款花果紋菱口盤
- Title: Foliated dish with flowers and fruits
- Artist: Wan Yannian (Chinese, active late 18th–early 19th century)
- Period: Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
- Date: 19th century
- Culture: China
- Medium: Painted enamel on copper alloy
- Dimensions: Diam. 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm)
- Classification: Enamels
- Credit Line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923
- Object Number: 24.80.333
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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