Collection
Export ware
(China)
- Title
- Plate decorated with castle and landscape scene
- Place of origin
-
China
- Year
- circa 1790s
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- porcelain with underglaze blue and gilding
- Dimensions
-
4.7 x 21.2cm
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Elisabeth M. Smith 2002
- Accession number
- 290.2002
- Location
- Upper Asian gallery
- Further information
[This] dish is an example of Chinese porcelain made at Jingdezhen, transported to Nanjing, then to Canton for shipment to England. The ware was extremely popular, often known by the name Nankin ware. The piece was decorated at Jingdezhen, but the gilding would have been added in England.
Asian Art Department, AGNSW, 15 October 2002.
