"Ruby-Back" Dish

second quarter 18th century

Chinese Qing Dynasty

Associated Names
Chinese Qing Dynasty

Artist

This is a decorative plate featuring two intricately painted birds amidst colorful flowers with a butterfly hovering above. The birds are mostly brown and white, with darker feathers along their backs. The area around them on the right is painted in green and blue, while the flowers are red and pink. The plate is adorned with a yellow border decorated with circular patterns that are interspersed with floral motifs and small decorative medallions filled with swirling shapes.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    porcelain with overglaze famille rose enamels

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 3.5 x 19.9 cm (1 3/8 x 7 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1942.9.555

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

J. Pierpont Morgan [1837-1913], New York. (Duveen Brothers, New York and London); sold 1915 to Peter A. B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from Estate of Peter A. B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; gift 1942 to NGA.

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Bibliography

1904

  • Morgan 1904-1911, 2:4, nos. 26-27 [references to 1942.9.555-556].

1947

  • Christensen, Erwin O. Chinese Porcelains of the Widener Collection. Washington, 1947 (rev. ed. 1956): 22.

1998

  • Bower, Virginia, Josephine Hadley Knapp, Stephen Little, and Robert Wilson Torchia. Decorative Arts, Part II: Far Eastern Ceramics and Paintings; Persian and Indian Rugs and Carpets. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1998: 232-233, color repro.

Wikidata ID

Q62758427

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