CT04 (previous number (collector's original number))
Accession number:
Acc.4817
Description:
Porcelain tray. Round tea tray with black and pale green landscape. Both landscape and inscription show signs of wear. Mountains piled up fill lower left quadrant. Two old trees have been repeatedly pollarded leaving many white scars on their trunks. Two figures at bottom center—the one in the lead carries a walking staff, the one who follows may be carrying a parcel—climb up a mountain cleft. Their presumed destination is the pavilion on a promontory visible to the right of the smaller tree. On the lower right a river stretches into the distance. Acquisition Data: Baoguosi, Beijing, with Miriam Clifford, 26 September 2002.
Donor:
Alfreda Murck
Collection place:
Beijing, Beijing municipality, Northern China
Verbatim coll. place:
Baoguosi Market, Beijing, China
Production place:
China
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Collector:
Alfreda Murck
Collection date:
September 25, 2002
Materials:
Glaze (coating by location), Paint (coating), and Porcelain (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Porcelain (visual works)
Production date:
1931
Accession date:
August 25, 2020
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
whole— diameter 27 centimeters
Comment:
Inscription: "Spring month of Xinwei [1931] an elegant plaything for JingYi Brother Five. Xu Jianguo respectfully presents" (辛未春月經儀五弟 雅玩徐建國敬贈. Xinwei chunyue Jingyi wudi yawan Xu Jianguo jingzeng)Condition: Abrasions on surface of tray that have partially effaced the painting and inscription, which is visible in raking light; one chip on rim.