Dish with peaches and bats
In the early eighteenth century, court artisans adopted a chemical process introduced via Europe. The technique used gold nanoparticles to create a pink color. By 1716, skilled enamelers were commissioned to work at the imperial workshops, where the method was deployed on ceramic and metal objects made for the court. Here, the artist used this prominent technique to apply the pink color, spraying the enamel to create a naturalistic image of ripening peaches.
Artwork Details
- 清雍正 景德鎮窯粉彩瓷蝠桃紋盤
- Title: Dish with peaches and bats
- Period: Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Yongzheng period (1723–35)
- Date: early 18th century
- Culture: China
- Medium: Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels (Jingdezhen ware)
- Dimensions: H. 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm); Diam. 8 1/8 in. (20.7 cm); Diam. of foot 5 1/4 in. (20.6 cm)
- Classification: Ceramics
- Credit Line: Gift of Stanley Herzman, in memory of Gladys Herzman, 1997
- Object Number: 1997.1.11
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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