Artist:
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Artist Unknown
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Title:
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Plate
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Date:
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Kangxi period (1662-1722)
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Medium:
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Porcelain, famille verte
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Dimensions:
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14 1/4 in. (36.2 cm)
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Credit Line:
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Gift of Mrs. Edward C. Gale
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Location:
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Gallery 218
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Unlike the monochrome tradition, this finely executed plate represents a less restrained aspect of Qing ceramic taste. Nevertheless, a technical virtuosity is apparent in the overglaze enamels which create a richly varied design of butterflies and flowers on a green stipple ground. A work such as this, eggshell thin and of flawless brushwork, is the reward of 2500 years of constant effort by the Chinese to create faultless ceramics. It is natural that such exquisite objects often functioned as purely decorative pieces.
Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Classification:
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Ceramics
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Physical Description:
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Plate, famille verte; K'ang Hsi period
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Creation Place:
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Asia, China, , ,
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Accession #:
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15.38
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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