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- Copyright *� 1983 Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
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The use of any part of this publication reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photo-copying, recording, or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system, without the prior consent of the owner is an infringement of copyright law. Chapter C-30 R.S.C., 1970.
ISBN 0-88885-069-7
photographs: Trevor Mills
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Dish d. 33 cm, Yongzheng (1723-1735)
This extremely fine polychrome dish is elegantly decorated with a pair of crested songbirds with heads lifted in chorus perched on slender peony branches. The large heavily petalled open blooms, decorated in famille rose enamels, range from a milky pink to a deep pink on the buds and newer flowers. A decaying branch is shaded in pink and yellow. This scene is encircled by a double band in black and gold, a black cell-diaper pattern, a continuous frieze of flowers amidst gilded foliage scrolls, and finally a trellis border on a lime-green ground.
Designed and printed in Canada by MORRISS PRINTING COMPANY LTD. Victoria, British Columbia
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