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Object 2011297

Dish

China

1740-1760

Height 23 mm (0.91 inch), diameter of rim 222 mm (8.74 inch), diameter of footring 115 mm (4.53 inch), weight 342 grams (12.06 ounce (oz.))

Dish on a footring with a glazed base and a flattened rim. Batavia Brown covered with underglaze light brown. Decorated in 'Red & Gold' / 'Rouge-de-fer' with encre de Chine and gold on the glaze. In the centre a reserved four pointed scalloped cartouche, a central roundel is decorated with a riverscape with a pavilion, rocky banks and trees, the roundel is surrounded by flowering peony plants alternating with flowering chrysanthemum plants. The scalloped reserves on the rim are filled with flowering peony plants alternating with reserved roundels, filled with riverscapes. The reverse is undecorated.

The combination of an object covered in Batavia Brown with 'Red & Gold' / 'Rouge-de-fer' and encre de Chine and gold on the glaze is unusual and rare.

For an identically shaped and decorated dish, please see:

Ostindisk Porselen i Norge, (J. Huitfeldt, Oslo 1993), p.132

Condition: Some firing flaws and a fleabite and chip to the reverse rim.

References:

Huitfeldt 1993., p.132

Jörg & Van Campen 1997, cat. 143 & cat. 251

Price: Sold.