Dish with figures from the novel The Water Margin
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Title
Dish with figures from the novel The Water Margin
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Associated place
China (place of creation) -
Date
1660 - 1720 -
Material and technique
porcelain, with famille verte overglaze enamels
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Object type
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Dimensions
2.8 cm (height)
20.3 cm (diameter)
at foot 13.2 cm (diameter) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Bequeathed by J. Francis Mallett, 1947.
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Museum location
Second floor | Gallery 35 | West meets East -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EAX.3532
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Glossary of terms
porcelain
Further reading
Vainker, Shelagh, ‘Luxuries or Not? Consumption of Silk and Porcelain in Eighteenth-Century China’, Maxine Berg and Elizabeth Heger, Luxury in the Eighteenth Century (Houndmills (Basingstoke) and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), pp. 210 & 218, pl. 33
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