Dish with rocks, flowers, and birds

Unknown

1725–30 · Hard-paste porcelain painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware) · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

In addition to the standard motif of rocks, flowers, and birds, several of the Eight Treasures—which originated in Buddhist art but are here employed as general symbols of good fortune—decorate the molded rim of the plate, whose shape was copied from contemporaneous French silver.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1725–30

Medium

Hard-paste porcelain painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

Culture

Chinese, for European, probably French, market

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

The Hans Syz Collection, Gift of Stephan B. Syz and John D. Syz, 1995