Dish with poem and design of orchid and rock

Object Details

• Description

  Small dish with upcurving sides.

  Clay: porcelain.

  Glaze: lustrous clear glaze.

  Decoration: in cobalt pigment under the glaze, design of orchids beside an ornamental garden rock, accompanied by a poem written in Chinese, consisting of two lines of five characters each.

  Mark: On the base is an abstracted signature that may be ornamental.

• Signatures

  On the base is an abstracted signature that may be ornamental.

• Provenance

  To 1999

  John and Betty Menke, Rye, New York, purchased at a sale in the United States at an unknown date. [1]

  From 1999

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of John and Betty Menke, Rye, New York. [2]

  Notes:

  [1] John Menke purchased this dish at a sale in the United States at an unknown date.

  See Curatorial Remark 2 in the object record.

  [2] See Acquisition Consideration Form, copy in object file, Collections Management Office.

• Collection

  Freer Study Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Betty and John R. Menke

• Origin

  Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Betty and John R. Menke

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1630s, 1680s

• Name

  Menke, Betty and John R.

• Place

  China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen

• Topic

  Porcelain, Art, Chinese Art, Ceramics, Jingdezhen ware, Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)