Canton porcelain plate with emblem and flower patterns

With its adept and fluid brushwork, this large and meticulously crafted plate seamlessly integrates the wucai technique, embodying the distinctive characteristics of porcelain ware from the Kangxi era. Early Canton porcelain works used traditional Ming Dynasty sancai (three-color) and wucai (five-color) pigments, as well as foreign enamel pigments. Wucai porcelain had a short export period before being gradually replaced by famille rose and Canton porcelain from around 1730.