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Collections > Ceramics > Soup-plate

Soup-plate

The centre painted in black monochrome of a pastoral lakeside scene with a bridge connecting an island in the middle of the lake to the far shore, upon which a man rides a donkey and a woman is wearing a yoke supporting two baskets, and in the far distance, houses and trees, including a house on stilts at the lakeside. The flaring rim is decorated with panels of various flowers - magnolia, jonquils, and lotus against a background of formal gilt ornament.
Size: Diameter: 21.5 cm.
X.5615

Place: China

Object Type: plate

Period: Qing Dynasty

Actual Date: c. 1692

Century: 17th - 18th century

Material: Porcelain

Museum Accession Number: X.5615