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Plate

Plate
 (1690-1710)

Medium
porcelain (hard-paste)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Patricia Begg OAM Bequest, 2024
© Public Domain
Reproduction requests
Gallery location
17th & 18th Century Decorative Arts & Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
 

About this work

This Japanese dish is moulded in the form of a chrysanthemum flower with sixteen petals, or lobes. The centre of the dish is painted with a flowering prunus branch and each pair of lobes is decorated with brocaded and floral patterns in underglaze-blue and polychrome enamels, with chrysanthemum flowers scattered randomly. The plate was part of the collections of Augustus II, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland; the mark on the underside, ‘N: 56. / X’, indicates that it was part of the palace inventory of 1721. Augustus II founded the Meissen Porcelain Manufactory and many of his Asian porcelains formed the models and inspiration for the factory’s early productions.
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Artwork Details

Medium
porcelain (hard-paste)
Measurements
25.0 cm diameter
Accession Number
2024.573
Department
Asian Art
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Patricia Begg OAM Bequest, 2024
© Public Domain
Reproduction requests
Gallery location
17th & 18th Century Decorative Arts & Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International

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