Plate

Museum number:
9-12693
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090012693
Alternate number:
3188 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.05
Description:
China. Platter, porcelain. Very shallow wide bowl shape, flat bottom, curved sides, flared rim and short foot. Heavily decorated with overglaze enamels: flowers and leaves in green, grey, and red with black outline over red diaper pattern of four lobed leaf within squares, on white ground. Band around inner wall with peony scroll work in same colors with two green and two yellow dragons on dotted circle pattern in iron red. Outer wall: red cloud pattern band near rim. Red and green prunus blossoms below, and plantain leaf comb pattern band near base. Double recessed foot. Platter had been badly broken and mended with staples, plaster and pewter in the chips. Enamel and lacquer very worn, and scratched on bottom. Height 6.2 centimeters, diameter 32.2 centimeters.
Donor:
Anita Day Symmes Blake, Anson Stiles Blake, and Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
China
Verbatim coll. place:
China
Collector:
Anson Stiles Blake
Collection date:
pre-1962
Materials:
Glaze (coating by location)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Plates (general, dishes)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 4 titled Plate, accession number 9-12693, described as China. Platter, porcelain. Very shallow wide bowl shape, flat bottom, curved sides, flared rim and short foot. Heavily decorated with overglaze enamels: flowers and leaves in green, grey, and red with black outline over red diaper pattern of four lobed leaf within squares, on white ground. Band around inner wall with peony scroll work in same colors with two green and two yellow dragons on dotted circle pattern in iron red. Outer wall: red cloud pattern band near rim. Red and green prunus blossoms below, and plantain leaf comb pattern band near base. Double recessed foot. Platter had been badly broken and mended with staples, plaster and pewter in the chips. Enamel and lacquer very worn, and scratched on bottom. Height 6.2 centimeters, diameter 32.2 centimeters.Hearst Museum object 2 of 4 titled Plate, accession number 9-12693, described as China. Platter, porcelain. Very shallow wide bowl shape, flat bottom, curved sides, flared rim and short foot. Heavily decorated with overglaze enamels: flowers and leaves in green, grey, and red with black outline over red diaper pattern of four lobed leaf within squares, on white ground. Band around inner wall with peony scroll work in same colors with two green and two yellow dragons on dotted circle pattern in iron red. Outer wall: red cloud pattern band near rim. Red and green prunus blossoms below, and plantain leaf comb pattern band near base. Double recessed foot. Platter had been badly broken and mended with staples, plaster and pewter in the chips. Enamel and lacquer very worn, and scratched on bottom. Height 6.2 centimeters, diameter 32.2 centimeters.Hearst Museum object 3 of 4 titled Plate, accession number 9-12693, described as China. Platter, porcelain. Very shallow wide bowl shape, flat bottom, curved sides, flared rim and short foot. Heavily decorated with overglaze enamels: flowers and leaves in green, grey, and red with black outline over red diaper pattern of four lobed leaf within squares, on white ground. Band around inner wall with peony scroll work in same colors with two green and two yellow dragons on dotted circle pattern in iron red. Outer wall: red cloud pattern band near rim. Red and green prunus blossoms below, and plantain leaf comb pattern band near base. Double recessed foot. Platter had been badly broken and mended with staples, plaster and pewter in the chips. Enamel and lacquer very worn, and scratched on bottom. Height 6.2 centimeters, diameter 32.2 centimeters.Hearst Museum object 4 of 4 titled Plate, accession number 9-12693, described as China. Platter, porcelain. Very shallow wide bowl shape, flat bottom, curved sides, flared rim and short foot. Heavily decorated with overglaze enamels: flowers and leaves in green, grey, and red with black outline over red diaper pattern of four lobed leaf within squares, on white ground. Band around inner wall with peony scroll work in same colors with two green and two yellow dragons on dotted circle pattern in iron red. Outer wall: red cloud pattern band near rim. Red and green prunus blossoms below, and plantain leaf comb pattern band near base. Double recessed foot. Platter had been badly broken and mended with staples, plaster and pewter in the chips. Enamel and lacquer very worn, and scratched on bottom. Height 6.2 centimeters, diameter 32.2 centimeters.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plate, accession number 9-12693, described as China. Platter, porcelain. Very shallow wide bowl shape, flat bottom, curved sides, flared rim and short foot. Heavily decorated with overglaze enamels: flowers and leaves in green, grey, and red with black outline over red diaper pattern of four lobed leaf within squares, on white ground. Band around inner wall with peony scroll work in same colors with two green and two yellow dragons on dotted circle pattern in iron red. Outer wall: red cloud pattern band near rim. Red and green prunus blossoms below, and plantain leaf comb pattern band near base. Double recessed foot. Platter had been badly broken and mended with staples, plaster and pewter in the chips. Enamel and lacquer very worn, and scratched on bottom. Height 6.2 centimeters, diameter 32.2 centimeters.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plate, accession number 9-12693, described as China. Platter, porcelain. Very shallow wide bowl shape, flat bottom, curved sides, flared rim and short foot. Heavily decorated with overglaze enamels: flowers and leaves in green, grey, and red with black outline over red diaper pattern of four lobed leaf within squares, on white ground. Band around inner wall with peony scroll work in same colors with two green and two yellow dragons on dotted circle pattern in iron red. Outer wall: red cloud pattern band near rim. Red and green prunus blossoms below, and plantain leaf comb pattern band near base. Double recessed foot. Platter had been badly broken and mended with staples, plaster and pewter in the chips. Enamel and lacquer very worn, and scratched on bottom. Height 6.2 centimeters, diameter 32.2 centimeters.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plate, accession number 9-12693, described as China. Platter, porcelain. Very shallow wide bowl shape, flat bottom, curved sides, flared rim and short foot. Heavily decorated with overglaze enamels: flowers and leaves in green, grey, and red with black outline over red diaper pattern of four lobed leaf within squares, on white ground. Band around inner wall with peony scroll work in same colors with two green and two yellow dragons on dotted circle pattern in iron red. Outer wall: red cloud pattern band near rim. Red and green prunus blossoms below, and plantain leaf comb pattern band near base. Double recessed foot. Platter had been badly broken and mended with staples, plaster and pewter in the chips. Enamel and lacquer very worn, and scratched on bottom. Height 6.2 centimeters, diameter 32.2 centimeters.

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