Large Plate with Landscape Scenes and Seal Script Inscription, “Jade Hall Filled with Nobility and Wealth”
China, Fujian province, Large Plate with Landscape Scenes and Seal Script Inscription, “Jade Hall Filled with Nobility and Wealth”, late 16th/17th century, porcelain with overglaze black, turquoise, and red enamel painting, Gift of Virginia Nelson, public domain, 92.204
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- Title
Large Plate with Landscape Scenes and Seal Script Inscription, “Jade Hall Filled with Nobility and Wealth”
- Related Titles
original language: «玉堂福貴»紋大盤 中國福建省 明末
- Artist
- Date
late 16th/17th century
- Period
China: Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)
- Medium
porcelain with overglaze black, turquoise, and red enamel painting
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
3 1/2 in x 15 in diam.
- Collection Area
Asian Art
- Category
Ceramics
- Object Type
plate
- Culture
Chinese
- Credit Line
Gift of Virginia Nelson
- Accession Number
92.204
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
This charming plate is typical of wares made in the late Ming dynasty at commercial kilns in southeast China for markets in Southeast Asia and Islamic states bordering the Arabian Sea. In the central landscape, a waterfall gushes forth from a mountain range, splitting in half a large pagoda and arching over three smaller pagodas. On the cavetto (the curved walls of the plate), cusped arches frame four small, irregularly spaced lakeside landscapes. In between these are four rectangular inscriptions, each reading yutang fugui (Jade Hall filled with nobility and wealth).
