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Object 2010591

Dish

China

1620-1640

Height 52 mm (2.05 inch), diameter of rim 288 mm (11.34 inch), diameter of footring 147 mm (5.79 inch)

Dish on footring, slightly scalloped flat rim. Decorated in underglaze blue with a cicada (Latin for grasshopper) on a rock in a marshy landscape with flowering peonies and clouds encircled by an eight pointed scalloped medallion. On the sides and rim large panels filled with peach and auspicious symbols alternating with narrow panels with a diaper pattern and dots. On the reverse broad panels filled rounded shapes and narrow panels with hastily-drawn lingzhi.

According to Rinaldi this dish can be classified as a Border VII.3 dish. Borders in this group show a great variety in their decorative motifs. The most common bears the sunflower motif alternating with large and simply drawn symbols. Dishes with similar border were found among the shards from the São Gonçalo. The seven broad panels filled rounded shapes on the reverse of this specific dish are unusual because most dishes of the border VII 3. type have no more than four to six circles / rounded shapes on the reverse. (Rinaldi 1989, pp.106-108)

A cicada symbolizes happiness and eternal youth. (Hartog 1990, p.38)

Condition: Two hairlines, a shallow glaze chip and some glaze fritting to the rim.

References:

Pijl-Ketel 1982, pp.270-283

Rinaldi 1989, Pl. 97

Hartog 1990, cat. 6

Price: Sold.