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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Writer's Coupe
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Writer's Coupe

Artist Unknown
CultureChinese | Qing Dynasty | Kangxi Period
Date1662-1722
MediumPorcelain
DimensionsOverall: 3 in. (7.6 cm)
Base: 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm)
Inscribed6 character underglaze blue mark of Kangxi on bottom.
Credit LineGift of Dr. James C. Perry in Memory of Nancy Nash Perry
Object number36.8.165
Collections
On View
Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 106
DescriptionA hemispherical coupe with slightly incurvate mouth, decorated with two underglaze copper red bats on white ground. Silver mouth rim. Glaze pitted mostly on the red areas; hairline crack in glaze on bottom.

Label TextWriter’s Coupe Chinese, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period, 1662–1722 C.E. Porcelain Gift of Dr. James C. Perry, in memory of Nancy Nash Perry 36.8.165
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