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late 16th–early 17th century · Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under and colored enamels over transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware) · Asian Art

The four characters on the cover read tianxia taiping, or “all is well under heaven,” a common wish often written on porcelains in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century.

Artist

Unknown

Date

late 16th–early 17th century

Medium

Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under and colored enamels over transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

Culture

China

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Gift of Stanley Herzman, in memory of Adele Herzman, 1991