Dish with peaches and bats
The use of gold nanoparticles to create a pink color was a chemical process introduced to Guangzhou artisans by Europeans in the early eighteenth century. By 1716, skilled enamelers were requisitioned to work at the imperial workshops, where this new color was deployed onto ceramic and metal surfaces for courtly consumption. In a technique more usual for glaze application, the enameler has sprayed this pink enamel to create a naturalistic sense 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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