Small Foliated Dish
Qianlong period, 1736/1795
Artist

Artwork overview
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Medium
porcelain with colorless glaze
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 1.4 x 8 cm (9/16 x 3 1/8 in.)
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Accession
1972.43.23
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Yamanaka, Chicago); sold June 1941 to Harry G. Steele [1881-1942], Pasadena; his widow, Grace C. Steele [d. 1974]; gift 1972 to NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
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: 142, color repro.
Inscriptions
incised in seal script into the base in two columns of two characters each: Qianlong nian zhi (made in the reign of Qianlong dynasty)
Wikidata ID
Q62758819