1725-30
France
Object qualities
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Objecttableware: Dish
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Type of arts & crafts
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MediumHard-paste porcelain painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware)
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SizeDiameter: 12 3/8 in. (31.4 cm)
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Geography details
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Country today
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Date1725-30
Source of information
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Type of sourceDatabase “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
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Fund that the source refers toMetropolitan Museum of Art
Description
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In addition to the standard motif of rocks, flowers, and birds, several of the Eight Treasures—which originated in Buddhist art but are here employed as general symbols of good fortune—decorate the molded rim of the plate, whose shape was copied from contemporaneous French silver.
