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2020-182,1&2, Plates
Soup Plates
2020-182,1&2, Plates

Soup Plates

Date1760-1780
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.
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Record
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