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Object 2011877

Dish

China

1700-1720

Height 35 mm (1.38 inch), diameter of rim 215 mm (8.47 inch), diameter of footring 100 mm (3.94 inch)

Dish on a footring with a curving spirally rim fluted in eight lobes and a glazed base. Decorated in underglaze blue with a feng-huang or phoenix and a peony spray in the centre, and in the radiating panels with a monkey in a peach tree alternating with a spray of carnations: on the reverse are eight flower sprays. Marked on the base with the symbol mark: Flower, the symbol for purity in a double circle, underglaze blue.

This dish is a fine and characteristic example of the Kangxi cobalt-blue and style of painting The dish imitates a common European silver form, which may however have been transmitted by way of an intermediary in delftware. (Howard & Ayers 1981, p.35)

For a similarly decorated dish, please see:

Condition: three shallow rough spots and frits to the rim and frits to the footring.

References:

Visser 1930, cat. 4

Lunsingh Scheurleer 1966, cat. 18

Howard & Ayers 1978, vol. 1, p.64

Howard & Ayers 1981, cat. 18

New York 1985, cat. 8

Lunsing Scheurleer 1989, cat. 72

Davison 1994, cat. 1806

Price: Sold.