c. 1730-1750
Dish (one of a pair)
Artist/maker unknownImage 1 of 21 / 2
This eggshell porcelain dish is decorated in a range of pastel shades of overglaze enamels popular in China in the early eighteenth century. The combination of the rooster and peony blossoms is a rebus (a visual riddle in which the items pictured have names that sound like a word or phrase) conveying wishes for receiving official rank and honor, or for wealth, rank, and good fortune.
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