Sold Ceramics - Sold Chinese Imari 1700-1800 - Flowers, Animals and Long Elizas - Page 1

Object 2010440

Dish

China

1720-1740

Height 33 mm (1.30 inch), diameter of rim 167 mm (6.58 inch), diameter of footring 102 mm (4.02 inch)

Dish on footring, straight underglaze brown-edged rim (jia mangkou). Chinese Imari, decorated in underglaze blue, overglaze iron-red and gold with a flowering peony tree growing from rockwork near a fence with two butterflies in flight. On the rim a trellis-pattern border with four flower heads. The reverse is undecorated. On the interior wall a rectangular paper label with the handwritten number '98'.

Looking at the handwriting of the number '98', in old ink, it appears that the label was placed on the dish a long time ago. So the label itself has become part of the dish's history. Number '98' was, most likely, the dish's number in a previous owner's collection.

Condition: A few tiny fleabites to the rim.

Price: Sold.