Soup Plates
Date1760-1780
OriginAsia, China, Jingdezhen
MediumHard-paste porcelain
Dimensions2020-182,1&2: OH: 1 9/16"; OD: 9 1/8". (Same measurements for both soup plates.)
Credit LineBequest of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Hennage
Object number2020-182,1&2
DescriptionPair of circular Chinese export porcelain soup plates, each with raised foot and broad slightly upturned everted rim. Decorated with opaque enamels. The rim with an iron-red and gilded spearhead border and eight evenly spaced floral sprays. The cavetto decorated with a gilt and iron-red crackled prunus blossom band, interrupted at even intervals by four panels featuring pink lotus petals. The center of the well painted with a central design of two blue scholar's rocks and a prunus blossom branch in the green-washed grassy foreground, and two large pink blooms (passion flower and peony) arching over and surrounded by smaller flowers.
ca. 1760
ca. 1740
ca. 1750
ca. 1750
ca. 1760
ca. 1765
ca. 1730
1730-1745
1752-1758
ca. 1755
ca. 1755
1780-1800