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Soup Plate, “Kangxi” Famille-Verte Pattern

Manufacturer Worcester Porcelain Company (British)

CultureEnglish

Dateca. 1778-80

MediumPorcelain

Dimensions9 5/8 in. (24.4 cm)

Credit LineOn loan from the City of Norfolk, gift of Elise and Henry Clay Hofheimer II

Object numberL2005.10.149

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 112, Case 3

DescriptionThis is a Worcester octagonal soup plate painted after a Kangxi famille-vert original with a Chinese pheasant in flight above another perched on a fence beneath a pine tree between a flowering plant and a jardiniere on a table, the cavetto with an iron-red ruyi-head border, the green-ground rim stippled in back and decorated with four phoenixes amidst peonies within a blue double line, an iron-red whorl band and an iron-red and gilt gadrooned edge, and the underside of the rim with eight iron-red and green peony sprigs. There is a tiny rim chip.
ProvenanceHenry Clay Hofheimer, II