Porcelain tray. Oval tray with fluted rim, which was originally gilded. The painting shows a bird’s-eye view of a garden with multiple pavilions surrounded by walls and a small pleasure boat on a pond. The inscription identifies it as Hundred Flowers Islets (百花洲Baihua zhou) in Jiangxi province.
Donor:
Alfreda Murck
Collection place:
China
Verbatim coll. place:
People's Republic of China
Production place:
China
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Collector:
Alfreda Murck
Materials:
Glaze (coating by location), Paint (coating), and Porcelain (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Porcelain (visual works)
Production date:
1917
Accession date:
August 25, 2020
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
whole— diameter 25.8 centimeters and whole— diameter 29 centimeters
Comment:
Inscription: Top: “Hundred-flower Isle, Jiangxi, made by Boiled-stone Mountain Studio” (江西百花洲 煮石山房作Jiangxi Baihua zhou, Zhushi shanfang zuo). Upper right: “The first month of winter in the year of Dingsi [1917], respectfully gifted by Wu San to Rudi for his elegant appreciation” (丁巳孟冬月華廷如棣雅玩 克儉伍三敬贈 茂亭Dingsi mengdong yue hua ting Rudi yawan; Kejian Wusan jingzeng, maoting)