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Plate

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Octagonal plate with scalloped edges, white with floral pattern. The center contains a circle filled with a dense arrangement of small flowers and intersecting black lines. The same small flowers are scattered across the plate's wide rim. Black background. Title: Plate Artist: Royal Copenhagen

Artwork details

Date:
1760
Medium:
White porcelain decorated with blue under the glaze (Hirado ware)
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
599 × 587 px
Museum record:
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