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Assortment of Chinese export porcelain, known as the famous "Nanking Cargo," from a sunken ship ...

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Datec. 1750

Geography Made - China

Medium/TechniquePorcelain (hard-paste), enamel, gilt

DimensionsOverall (H x W x D): 1 1/8 in. x 9 in. x 9 in. (2.86 cm x 22.86 cm x 22.86 cm)

Credit LinePurchased by the A. Alfred Taubman Acquisition Endowment Fund, 2005

Object numberM-4465

DescriptionCircular plate with a plain, flat rim edged in brown on a shallow foot ring. The plate is decorated in the Imari palette with underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze iron red enamels and gilt. Centered in the well is a plantain or banana tree rising above a garden with a rockery, tree peony, and fence. A dragonfly flys away at upper right. The sides of the well feature a trellis-diaper band with four reserves of flowers, while the rim has three large sprays of trailing peonies.

Pattern Names: Plantain

Published ReferencesColin Sheaf and Richard Kilburn, The Hatcher Porcelain Cargoes: The Complete Record (Oxford, England: Phaidon, 1988), 115. (general reference)

C. J. A. Jorg, The Geldermalsen: History and Porcelain (Groningen: Kemper Publishers, 1986), 75. (general reference)

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