Title

Polychrome plate with incised landscape decoration, Guangxu period, Qing dynasty, China, 1890s. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Polychrome plate with incised landscape decoration, Guangxu period, Qing dynasty, China, 1890s. The interior of this plate is white with incised decoration on top of the glaze depicting the West Lake. The back is overglaze polychrome famille rose enamels of bamboo and passion fruit, vines and butterflies all on a deep blue ground. The particular colour combinbation here was the favourite colour scheme of the Empress Dowager Cixi.
Bath (England), The Museum of East Asian Art

Date

1890

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B74_227

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

18,4Mb (436,1Kb) / 8,2in x 8,7in / 2459 x 2610 (300dpi)

Keywords

arts country white China art Chinese color colour plate location century porcelain pottery artefact dynasty artifact qing dynasty glazed 19th century polychrome nineteenth century incised Museum of East Asian Art Guangxu period object Unknown ceramic ceramic object