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Date unknown · Porcelain painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware) · Asian Art

The delicate pink in the painting illustrates the development of new colors in the early part of the eighteenth century. Opaque white derived from a lead arsenite, and pale pink tinted with bits of gold were added to the palette and combined with existing colors to create a range of hues.

Artist

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Date

Date unknown

Medium

Porcelain painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

Culture

China

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Mr. and Mrs. Isaac D. Fletcher Collection, Bequest of Isaac D. Fletcher, 1917