Pair of imperial dishes Guangxu period, c.1875-1903
Porcelain painted in underglaze blue and yellow enamel | 5.9 x 32.0 x 32.0 cm (whole object) | RCIN 58815
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A pair of Chinese porcelain Imperial dishes with rounded wells and everted lisp. In the centre is a design painted in reserve on a blue ground, of a rampant, five-clawed dragon pursuing a pearl among clouds and flames, with two similar running dragons in a band round the sides, repeated on the outside, all with the designs filled out in yellow enamel. On the base, in four large blue seal-script characters, is the mark Chuxiugong zhi (‘Made for the Palace of Gathered Elegance’).
Text adapted from Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen: Volume I.Provenance
Presented to Queen Victoria on 5 August 1896 by Li Hongzhang, Special Chinese Ambassador, on behalf of Guangxu, Emperor of China. Recorded in the Inventory of Works of Art at Osborne House (1900,i, p. 357) in the New Wing Corridor as ‘Two Old Porcelain Plates in blue and sage green with clouds and dragons; in the form of dishes and with a Chinese inscription on the bottom. Diameter 12 5∕8 inches [32.1 cm]. On a carved circular and hexagonal stand with medallions of rosewood’. Sent to Buckingham Palace in April 1903. The stand has not been identified.
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Medium and techniques
Porcelain painted in underglaze blue and yellow enamel
Measurements
5.9 x 32.0 x 32.0 cm (whole object)
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