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Porcelain plate with a blue and green leaf pattern and golden band around the rim. The central decoration depicts a male dressed-up figure in a dancing pose on a tiled floor below a beamed ceiling amidst a two-line Dutch inscription "Weg Gekke Cctionisten".
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  • Porcelain plate with a blue and green leaf pattern and golden band around the rim. The central decoration depicts a male dressed-up figure in a dancing pose on a tiled floor below a beamed ceiling amidst a two-line Dutch inscription "Weg Gekke Cctionisten".

Date:

c. 1721/25

Artist:

China

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Applied Arts of Europe

Title

Plate

Place

Jingdezhen (Object made in:)

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Made 1716–1730

Medium

Hard-paste porcelain with polychrome enamels and gilding

Inscriptions

"Weg/Gekke/ Actio-nisten"; label on back "COLBURN/53"; "15646/ Away foolish Shareholders"

Dimensions

3.2 × 21.6 cm (1 1/4 × 8 1/2 in.); Diam.: 21.6 cm (8 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Bequest of Frederick S. Colburn

Reference Number

1958.268

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