Big plate with floral decoration in radiating panels

Chinese Collection

Accession Nr.: 3939
Type: vessel; pottery
Date of production:
1573–1619
Ming dynasty
Place of production:
Materials: porcelain
Techniques: underglaze blue
Dimensions: height: 8.9 cm
diameter: 51.2 cm
This is a large blue and white plate with a slightly curving rim. The plate belongs to a characteristic type of earliest Chinese porcelains produced for foreign markets (Wanli reighn). Presumably, it belonged to a 18th-century European interior, designed under the influence of China-mania.