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Famille verte plate with basket of flowers

Chinese export
Kangxi period
1662-1722

Medium/Technique Hard-paste porcelain, enamel decoration
Dimensions Diameter: 36 cm (14 3/16 in.)
Credit Line The G. Ephis Collection—Museum purchase with funds donated anonymously, Charles Bain Hoyt Fund, John H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund, Mary S. and Edward J. Holmes Fund, William Francis Warden Fund, Tamara Petrosian Davis Sculpture Fund, John Lowell Gardner Fund, Seth K. Sweetser Fund, H. E. Bolles Fund, and funds by exchange from the Kiyi and Edward M. Pflueger Collection-Bequest of Edward M. Pflueger and Gift of Kiyi Powers Pflueger
Accession Number2012.599
CollectionsEurope, Asia
ClassificationsCeramicsPorcelain

DescriptionDish with shaped rim. The central of the dish painted with a basket of flowers, surrounded by a border of twelve radiating, shaped panels.
ProvenanceJune 2007, sold by Dominique Odelin, Lille, to the G. Ephis collection (private collector), France; 2012, sold by the G. Ephis collection to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 24, 2012).