Jingdezhen kilns
Segmented Plate with Design of Flowers, Fruits, and Butterflies
1705
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Jingdezhen kilns
Segmented Plate with Design of Flowers, Fruits, and Butterflies
1705
Physical Qualities
Porcelain with overglaze painted enamel (hua falang) and gold decoration, Overall: 1 × 20 1/16 in. (2.6 × 51 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Amy Gould and Matthew Polk, Gibson Island, Maryland
Object Number
2014.166
Twelve-piece, shaped plate decorated with flowers, fruits, and butterflies in thin washs of bright hua falang enamel glazes, with gold highlights; rims and sides decorated with iron red enamel and gold. Four central smaller plates decorated with flower-and-butterfly motif; eight larger surrounding plates decorated with fruits, butterflies and moths. There are two plates decorated with grapes, two with peppers(?), three with cherries(?), and one with a berry. The interior side is decorated with an elongated striding qilong dragon; the exterior with Buddhist symbols repeated on each plate in the following order: umbrella, lotus, umbrella, lotus, conch shell, lotus, wheel, lotus, knot, lotus, paired fish, lotus, and umbrella followed by three lotus flowers on on the same short side of each plate. The wide rim of each plate is decorated with an intricated linked pattern of wan (10,000 characters) as well as oval and round stylized seal script shou (long life) characters in gold.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2014; Matthew Polk by purchase, c. 1983; John S. Pearson Company, Baltimore, 1983; Priscilla Ridgely Smith Lyne (d. 1983), Salisbury, MD, 1980; University Museum, Philadelphia, 1972-1980, as an extended loan; from her husband, Henry Lyne, Jr. (1908-1978), Haverford, PA and St. John's, VI, 1959; from his first wife, Ann West Jenks Lyne (1912-1959), 1946; from her father, John Story Jenks (1876-1946)
Collection installation, Levy Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art, October 5, 2023-
Inscribed: None. Ink on adhesive labels, bottom of several dishes, "John S. Jenks", "L-738-80" and "L-738-91"
Markings: None.