Display these blue and white coasters in part to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States of America. The MFA Boston's reimaged Art of the Americas galleries feature Asian pieces from the collection that illustrate the influence of this artwork on our own country's output.
- Each coaster measures 4.5" x 4.5"
- Cork coasters with hardboard top
Large plate with blue and white decoration of lotus flower scrolls
Chinese, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period, 1662–1722
Porcelain, Jingdezhen
7.4 x 38.5 cm (2 15/16 x 15 3/16 in.)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The John Pickering Lyman Collection—Gift of Miss Theodora Lyman
19.1009
Plate
Japanese for export to the European market, about 1660‑80
Hard‑paste porcelain
Diam. 45 cm (17 11/16 in.)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The 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
2012.570
