Dish with flowers and birds
Unknown
18th century · Hard-paste porcelain (Jingdezhen ware) · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
A Japanese Kakiemon-style bird-and-flower painting has been used here by a Dutch painter to decorate a Chinese porcelain blank. The grouping of a pair of magpies, plum blossoms, and bamboo is a traditional Chinese image, which forms the rebus "the couple delights in double happiness" (zhumei shuangxi).
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 18th century
- Medium
- Hard-paste porcelain (Jingdezhen ware)
- Culture
- Chinese with Dutch decoration
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- The Hans Syz Collection, Gift of Stephan B. Syz and John D. Syz, 1995
