Plate with "Long Eliza" figures
about 1700-10
Medium/TechniqueHard-paste porcelain, underglaze blue decoration
DimensionsDiam. 34 cm (13 3/8 in.)
Credit LineThe G. Ephis Collection—Museum purchase with funds donated anonymously, Charles Bain Hoyt Fund, John H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund, Mary S. and Edward J. Holmes Fund, William Francis Warden Fund, Tamara Petrosian Davis Sculpture Fund, John Lowell Gardner Fund, Seth K. Sweetser Fund, H. E. Bolles Fund, and funds by exchange from the Kiyi and Edward M. Pflueger Collection-Bequest of Edward M. Pflueger and Gift of Kiyi Powers Pflueger
Accession number2012.585
On View
Not on viewClassificationsCeramics
InscriptionsLabels of Jorge Welsh and the G. Ephis Collection on the underside.Provenance2005, sold by Jorge Welsh (dealer), London, to the G. Ephis collection (private collector), France; 2012, sold by the G. Ephis collection to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 24, 2012).
about 1590
about 1640
1780–90; central decoration added later
1710–25