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Object 2011221
Dish
China
1720-1735
Height 24 mm (0.94 inch), diameter of rim 202 mm (7.95 inch), diameter of footring 118 mm (4.65 inch), weight 282 grams (9.95 ounce (oz.))
Dish on footring with a flat rim and a moulded wavy edge in relief. Decorated in underglaze blue with a village with a church and houses, a lighthouse with trees, figures with a cow, and the poles with clouds. The slightly crimped rim is painted with a wave-scroll border. On the reverse three sprays of flowering branches. The low footring is encircled with a double concentric band.
This design on this dish has traditionally been called 'Deshima' or 'Scheveningen'. It certainly does not depict the Dutch factory in Deshima (Nagasaki), a fan-shaped, man-made island in Japan to which Westerners were restricted between 1641 and 1862. Scheveningen, a fisherman´s village on the Dutch coast near The Hague, is a more appropriate name. In fact, 47 "Scheveningen" plates were already mentioned in the 1778 sale catalogue of the porcelain shop of Martha Raap in Amsterdam, clearly indicating this type. Research was undertaken to find the print that was used as a model, non with this view have come to light. it is therefore possible that another source was used, maybe a plate or dish in the so-called Frijtom style. This is the most common version of this design, copied by the Chinese. The design, almost certainly copied from a drawing by Frederick van Frijtom (1652-1702), was highly popular in The Netherlands, and possibly also in Japan as a kind of Western exoticism. The rim design is unique in Chinese export porcelain and is almost certainly after a silver original. (Howard & Ayers 1978, vol. 1, pp.72-73), (Terwee 1989, pp.494-501), (Jörg 2003/1, p.240)
These dishes with the so called 'Deshima' or 'Scheveningen' design first appeared, in underglaze blue, on Japanese dishes of around c.1700. In the collection of the Groninger Museum is a blanc Chinese porcelain dish overdecorated in Delft (the Netherlands) c.1700-1730 with identical design. (Jörg 2003/1, cat. 307a)
For identically decorated dishes, please see:
- Chine de Commande, (D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, W. de Haan, Hilversum, 1966), cat. 272.
- Japans porselein met blauwe decoraties uit de tweede helft van de zeventiende en de eerste helft van de achttiende eeuw. (D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer in Mededelingenblad Nederlandse Vereniging van Vrienden van de Ceramiek, vols. 64/65, 1971), p.73, cat. 65.
- China for the West. Chinese Porcelain and other Decorative Arts for Export illustrated from the Mottahedeh Collection, (D.S. Howard & J. Ayers, Philip Wilson Publishers for Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications, London 1978), vol. 1, pp.72-73, cat. 32.
- Japanese Porcelain, (S. Jenyns, Faber & Faber, London / Boston, 1979), cat. 19a, (i).
- Porzellan aus China und Japan. Die Porzellangalerie der Landgrafen von Hessen-Kassel, (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Kassel, Berlin 1990), p.470, cat. 246.
- The Choice of the Private Trader. The Private Market in Chinese Export Porcelain illustrated from the Hodroff Collection, (D.S. Howard, Zwemmer, London, 1994), p.44, cat. 11.
- Made in Imperial China. 76,000 pieces of Chinese Export Porcelain from the Ca Mau Shipwreck, circa 1725, auction catalogue Sotheby’s Amsterdam, 29, 30 & 31 January 2007, pp.74-75, lot numbers 223-233.
- Faszination des Fremden: China - Japan - Europa, (D. Antonin & D. Suebsman, Hetjens-Museum, Deutsches Keramikmuseum Düsseldorf, 2009), pp.236-237, cat. 99.
- Kostbaar Goed van Grote Pracht. Chinees en Japans exportporselein uit de 17e en 18e eeuw, (Mr. L.C.A.M. Schölvinck, Zwolle 2010), p.57.
For a similarly decorated, sold, Chinese dish, please see:
For an originally decorated, sold, Japanese dish, please see:
Condition: Some popped bubbles, glaze caused during the firing process, and a chip to the rim.
References:
Lunsingh Scheurleer 1966, cat. 272
Lunsingh Scheurleer 1971, cat. 65
Howard & Ayers 1978, vol. 1, cat. 32
Arts 1983, Lochem 1983, Plate 57
Lunsingh Scheurleer 1989, cat. 176
Antonin & Suebsman 2009, cat. 99
Price: Sold.