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Dish with sailing-boat

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image shows a round, shallow dish with a sailing boat design. The dish has a wide rim with a patterned border featuring geometric shapes and foliage. The interior of the dish depicts a scene with a large sailboat in the foreground and a smaller boat in the background. The sailboat has three sails and several people on board. The background of the dish features trees, hills, and a body of water. The image is in black and white. The title of the image is "Dish with sailing-boat" and the artist is unidentified.

Artwork Details

Date
mid 18th-century
Medium
Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels (Jingdezhen ware)
Culture
China
Dimensions
600 × 577 px
Public Domain
Yes
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