Delft Faience 1640-1730 / Other Earthenware - Delft Faience 1640-1730 - Page 1
Object 2011455
Dish
Dutch (Delft)
1670-1700
Height 43 mm (1.69 inch), diameter of rim 266 mm (10.47 inch), diameter of footring 136 mm (5.35 inch), weight 647 grams (22.82 ounce (oz.))
Earthenware dish on footring, flat rim. Decorated in different shades of blue on a white tin glaze in Chinese Transitional style with two seated figures in a garden landscape. Flower scrolls replace the diaper motif as a border around the centre medallion. On the sides and rim eight large and eight narrow panels. The narrow panels are decorated with Dutch flowers, most likely tulips, four large panels are filled with a figure sitting in a landscape near a shore, the other four large panels are filled with Dutch flowers. The reverse with four circles and four asterisks. The footring has been pierced.
The peculiarity of this border is that it blends typical Chinese kraak panelled borders with Transitional style motifs. The function of these large dishes varied from serving fruit or cake to being displayed on a wall therefore the original pierced footring was used to pull a wire through on which the dish could be hung. (Rinaldi 1989, p.137), (Jörg 2002/2, p.59)
On this specific dish the central decoration is known as 'The Lion of Juda' the arch, see object 2010387, was mistakenly identified as scrolls of prayer.
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Condition: A T-shaped hairline with a tiny glaze loss spot, a chip and some shallow glaze rough spots to the rim.
References:
Lunsingh Scheurleer 1975, cat. 58
Price: € 499 Currency Converter
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