Sold Ceramics - Sold Blue and White Kangxi Period 1660-1722 - Dishes - Page 1

Object 2010588

Dish

China

c.1700

Height 39 mm (1.54 inch), diameter of rim 225 mm (8.86 inch), diameter of footring 115 mm (4.53 inch)

Dish on a footring with a foliate rim. Decorated in underglaze blue. The edge in underglaze brown (jia mangkou). (Sargent 2012, p.183) Moulded in the shape of an open lotus flower with nine petals. In the centre in a round shaped medallion an attractively painted decoration of a flowering peony and chrysanthemum plant growing from a taihu rock with flying butterflies and insects. The sides divided into nine moulded petals each one filled with flowering trees, plants and flying insects. On the reverse nine moulded petals filled with flowering stems. Marked on the base with the single character mark: Yu, (Jade (Yuan to Qing)), in a double circle, underglaze blue.

The Yu, "jade", character mark is traditionally called the F-mark in the Netherlands and is very common on good-quality blue and white Kangxi export porcelain. (Jörg & Van Campen 1997, p.115)

For a similarly sized and decorated dish, please see:

Kostbaar Goed van Grote Pracht. Chinees en Japans exportporselein uit de 17e en 18e eeuw, (Mr. L.C.A.M. Schölvinck, Zwolle 2010), pp. 30-31.

Condition: A restored chip and connected hairline.

References:

Davison 1994, cat. 33

Jörg & Van Campen 1997, cat. 116

Schölvinck 2010, pp.30-31

Sargent 2012, p.183

Price: Sold.