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Object Type: dish
Museum number: PDF,A.821
Description: Porcelain dish with scalloped lip. Fine white porcelain decorated in 'famille verte' palette enamels and overglaze blue enhanced by gilding. Inside, in the centre, a landscape containing the figures Fu xing, Shouxing and Luxing surrounded by alternating panels framing deer and crane.
Cultures/periods: Qing dynasty; Kangxi
Production date: 1662-1700
Production place: Made in: Jingdezhen
Materials: porcelain
Technique: glazed; painted
Dimensions: Diameter: 353 millimetres (Rim); Height: 58 millimetres; Weight: 1.50 kilograms
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Curator's comments: Published PDF date : Qing Kangxi 1662-1722; Room 95 label text: PDF A821 Dish with immortals and auspicious emblems This dish with scalloped lip is painted in the centre with the three Daoist stellar gods of Happiness, Emolument and Longevity ( Fuxing, Shouxing and Luxing). The God of Emolument is signified by an official hat, the God of Longevity with a high forehead and long beard, and the God of Happiness with a green robe. They are surrounded by eight alternating panels framing deer or cranes – both traditional Chinese emblems of longevity. There is an apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark in a double rectangle in underglaze blue on the base. Porcelain with overglaze enamels and gilding Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮 Qing dynasty, about AD 1662–1700; PDF A821 仙人吉祥圖案盤這件瓷盤口沿似扇形，中心繪以道教的三位星官，分別是福、祿、壽星。祿星的標志是官帽，壽星高額長須，福星身穿綠袍。周圍環繞以八個開光，其內分別是鹿或者鶴，都是長壽的標志。外底雙方框內署六字青花成化寄託年款。瓷器，釉上彩，金彩江西省景德鎮清代，約1662–1700年
Bibliographic references: Scott 1991 / Illustrated Catalogue of Qing Enamelled Ware in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.51, no.A821); Lady David 1973 / Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Enamelled Ware in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.34, no.A821); Scott 1989a / Imperial Taste - Chinese Ceramics from the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (pp 80-81, no.49); Pierson 2002 / Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art: A Guide to the Collection (p.84, no.87); Scott 1989b / Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art: A Guide to the Collection (p.104, no.108); Medley 1975 / Volume 7: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (Colour pl. 76 and p. 315); Pierson 2001 / Designs as Signs: Decoration and Chinese Ceramics (p. 89, no. 90)
Location: On display (G95/dc31/sh1)
Exhibition history: Exhibited:
Department: Asia
Registration number: PDF,A.821

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