清 景德鎮窯粉彩仕女童子盤|Dish with scene of a woman and children

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mid-18th century · Porcelain painted with overglaze polychrome enamels and gold (Jingdezhen ware) · Asian Art

Qing-dynasty porcelains painted with overglaze enamels are often catalogued and dated according to the colors of their palettes using a system first devised in the nineteenth century by a French scholar. Porcelains painted in shades of pink are fittingly known as famille rose. In this dish—whose subject is the popular theme of a woman and children surrounded by luxuries—pink is used for the children's clothing and in one of the borders that frames the charming scene.

Artist

Unknown

Date

mid-18th century

Medium

Porcelain painted with overglaze polychrome enamels and gold (Jingdezhen ware)

Culture

China

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913