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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)

 

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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

Corbeiller 1974, cat. 10.

Howard & Ayers 1978, vol. 1, cat. 32

Jenyns 1979, cat. 19a, (i)

Arts 1983, Lochem 1983, Plate 57

New York 1985, lot 22

Lunsingh Scheurleer 1989, cat. 176

Terwee 1989, pp.494-501

Kassel 1990, cat. 246

Howard 1994, cat 11

New York 2000, lot 95

Jörg 2003/1, cat. 306 & 307

Amsterdam 2007, lots 223-233

Antonin & Suebsman 2009, cat. 99

Schölvinck 2010, pp. 56-58

Sargent 2012, cat. 42

 

Price: Sold.