Dish with bouquet of lotus and water plants
Date1723-1735
Label TextThe basic design of this Qing dish derives from classic Ming porcelain produced in the Hongzhi period (1488-1505). The yellow glaze on Ming dishes tends to develop an orange tone. The blue-yellow color scheme on this dish can be compared with that of the "Eight-petaled saucer"-the two colors alternate in forming the primary patterns and the background color.
Object number36.60
Photo CreditPhoto: Paul Macapia
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Glaze, Pattern and Image: Decoration in Chinese Ceramics", September 7, 2002 - November 19, 2002
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, "Chinese Art: A Seattle Perspective", December 22, 2007 - July 26, 2009 (12/22/2007 - 7/26/2009)
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Porcelain Stories: From China to Europe", February 17, 2000-May 7, 2000 (2/17/2000 - 5/7/2000)
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Boundless: Stories of Asian Art, Feb. 8, 2020 - ongoing.Published ReferencesEmerson, Julie, Jennifer Chen, & Mimi Gardner Gates. "Porcelain Stories, From China to Europe." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 2000, pg. 129
Schroeder, Paul A. and Gary Erickson. "Kaolin: From Ancient Porcelains to Nanocomposites," in Elements: An International Magazine of Mineralogy, Geochemistry, and Petrology, Volume 10, Number 3, June 2014, fig. 5F, p. 181.
Foong, Ping, Xiaojin Wu, and Darielle Mason. "An Asian Art Museum Transformed." Orientations vol. 51, no. 3 (May/June 2020): p. 61, reproduced fig. 22 (installation view).Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection
Dimensions2 1/4 in. (5.72 cm), height
10 7/8 in. (27.7 cm), diameter
MediumPorcelain with underglaze-blue and yellow overglaze decoration