Plate

by 1973, Ethel Liebman [mother] and Arthur Liebman [son] (Milwaukee, WI); 1973, Arthur Liebman (Milwaukee, WI) sold to Mr. and Mrs. John C. Cleaver (Milwaukee, WI); September 1973, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Cleaver deposited on long-term loan to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]; 1975, gifted to Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

• Brawer, Catherine Coleman. "Chinese Export Porcelain." Madison, Wis.: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1992. p. 122, no. 95
• Elvehjem Art Center. "Rare Porcelain, European and Oriental Export." Madison, WI: Elvehjem Art Center, 1974. XIII, no. 9

• Chinese Export Porcelain from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Centuries: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 4/11/2003–8/29/2005
• European and Chinese Export Porcelain on Loan and from the Permanent Collection: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 7/16/1983–9/4/1983
• Chinese Export Porcelain from the Ethel and Arthur Liebman Collection: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 10/21/1979–1/6/1980
• Rare Porcelain: European and Oriental Export: Elvehjem Art Center, 6/3/1974–8/11/1974

A white plate is decorated with a vibrantly painted central scene. The circular scene shows three light-skinned figures in European colonial-style clothing picking large pink cherries from a tree with vivid green foliage. On the right, a figure wearing a pink jacket and orange breeches perches on a ladder, which leans against the tree, and extends an arm to offer cherries to a figure standing on the ground below. This figure lifts the skirt of their purple dress to gather the fruit. The third figure’s pink skirt pools around them as they sit on the ground beside a basket. A black and white dog sits nearby. The rim of the plate is embellished with a thin red and gold braid.

• Asia
• Ceramics
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