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Dish with flowering trees

Description:: Polychrome--Ku Yueh Hsuan type; Bowl. Shallow with slightly everted lip, low foot rim. Ivory stand.; Body: fine-grained white porcelain.; Glaze: perfectly transparent white, fine orange skin texture.; Decoration: overglaze enamels; floral pattern, calligraphy and 3 seals on pistachio green ground outside.; Mark: four-characters, of the Yung Cheng (Yongzheng) period in overglaze blue enamel on base.

Marks:: Mark: four-characters, of the Yung Cheng (Yongzheng) period in overglaze blue enamel on base.

Provenance:: 1928; Yamanaka and Company, New York 1928 [1]; From 1928; Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Yamanaka and Company, New York in 1928 [2]; Notes:; [1] See Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List file, Collections Management Office.; [2] See note 1.

Exhibition History:: Looking Out, Looking In: Art in Late Imperial China (October 14, 2017 - ongoing); Beyond Paper: Chinese Calligraphy on Objects (August 18, 1994 to July 3, 1997); Chinese Flower Paintings (March 18, 1983 to September 22, 1983); Chinese Ceramics (March 15, 1982 to July 10, 1986); Chinese Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to September 4, 1980); Chinese Art (January 1, 1963 to March 6, 1981); Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Ceramics (March 7, 1957 to January 1, 1963); Centennial Exhibition, Gallery 13 (November 10, 1955 to March 1, 1957); Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Painting and Ceramics (March 14, 1931 to March 22, 1943); Untitled Exhibition, Shahnama and Chinese Art (March 24, 1930 to May 5, 1933)