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- Place where the work was made
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China
- Period
- Kangxi 1662 - 1722 → Qing dynasty 1644 - 1911 → China
- Date
- 1662-1722
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- porcelain
- Dimensions
- 2.7 x 14.4 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Elisabeth M. Smith 2002
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 292.2002
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Jingdezhen ware
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The small porcelain dish is decorated on the interior in blue and white with a charming landscape with figures. A scholar is seated reclining against a rock, gazing far into the distance. His servant sits opposite him under two trees next to a jinrikisha. Two lines of poem by the renowned Tang dynasty poet Du Mu (803-852) appear on the upper left corner, and read: Stopping my cart, I sit and enjoy the maples at twilight; the red autumn leaves surpass February's flowers.' The decoration vividly demonstrates the intermingled taste of the literati and the populace.
A four character mark in cobalt blue is seen on the bottom of the dish. The first two characters of the four character mark, 'Nuoshen zhencang', could be the name of a person or a studio or they could simply mean 'deeply'. The second two characters mean 'treasure of' or 'treasured'. The dish was a product of Jingdezhen, manufactured around the Kangxi period of the Qing dynasty.
Asian Art Department, AGNSW, 15 October 2002.
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Where the work was made
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