Plate
Decorative Arts and Design
MEDIUM
Porcelain, gilt
DATES
ca. 1880
DIMENSIONS
height: 7/8 in. (2.2 cm); diameter: 9 in. (22.9 cm)
MARKINGS
on back: company logo impressed small circular mark near foot rim; indistinct
SIGNATURE
not signed
INSCRIPTIONS
no inscriptions
ACCESSION NUMBER
2000.127.9
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Rosemarie Haag Bletter and Martin Filler
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Plate. Porcelain with gilt decoration. White body with dark blue glaze on top. Thin gilt border to rim. Asymmetrical, Japanese inspired, gilt impasto decorative motives. Four leaves and one flower on lower half. Two leaves wrap around the rim. Two butterflies, one sits on a stem, one sits on the flower. Two cranes in flight above at opposing sides of plate. Horizontal bands of gilt specks, suggesting waves, are placed in the center of plate from one side to the other.
CONDITION - Very good; normal wear, some scratches on bottom.
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
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