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Plate in chrysanthemum shape

Photo: Paul Macapia

Plate in chrysanthemum shape

1736 - 95

Chinese

This fluted porcelain form is covered with a smooth coral-red glaze emulating the appearance of thick layers of lacquer. The poem inscribed in gold was composed by the Qianlong emperor in praise of the superb lacquer workmanship in the Wu region (present-day Jiangsu province), although this simulation of lacquer in porcelain speaks more to Qianlong’s love of visual play.
Porcelain with coral-red glaze, gold inscription
Diameter: 6 7/16 in. (16.4cm)
Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection
35.222
Photo: Paul Macapia
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Porcelain Stories: From China to Europe, Feb. 17 - May 7, 2000.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Glaze, Pattern and Image: Decoration in Chinese Ceramics, Sept. 7 - Nov. 19, 2002.

Tokyo, Japan, Suntory Museum of Art, Luminous Jewels: Masterpieces of Asian Art From the Seattle Art Museum, July 25 - Sept. 6, 2009 (Kobe, Japan, Kobe City Museum, Sept. 19 - Dec. 6, 2009; Kofu, Japan, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Dec. 23, 2009 - Feb. 28, 2010; Atami, Japan, MOA Museum of Art, Mar. 13 - May 9, 2010; Fukuoka, Japan, Fukuoka Art Museum, May 23 - July 19, 2010).

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Luminous: The Art of Asia, Oct. 13, 2011 - Jan. 8, 2012.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Conceal/Reveal, December 20, 2014 - June 21, 2015

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Boundless: Stories of Asian Art, Feb. 8, 2020 - ongoing.

Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art, China's Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangxi Delta, Sept. 10, 2023 - Jan. 7, 2024.
Published ReferencesKawai, Masatomo, Yasuhiro Nishioka, Yukiko Sirahara, editors, Luminous Jewels: Masterpieces of Asian Art From the Seattle Art Museum, 2009, The Yomiuri Shimbun, catalogue number 79

Emerson, Julie, Jennifer Chen, & Mimi Gardner Gates, Porcelain Stories, From China to Europe, Seattle Art Museum, 2000, pg. 248

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