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Object 2011639

Dish

China

1710-1730

Height 39 mm (1.46 inch), diameter of rim 285 mm (12.72 inch), diameter of footring 153 mm (7.09 inch), weight 587 grams (20.71 ounce (oz.))

Exhibited: The Asian Galleries Reinmagined - Color Across Asia held from 21 December 2016 to 13 May 2018 at the Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chaphil Hill, The United States of America, Object Guide no. 71.

Dish on footring, flat underglaze brown-edged rim (jia mangkou). Chinese Imari, decorated in underglaze blue, overglaze iron-red and gold with in the centre flowering peony, bamboo and chrysanthemum plants growing from taihu (garden) rock with two birds, one fin flight and one perched on a rock, a butterfly and small insects in flight. On the sides dense foliate scrolls reserved on an iron-red ground which incoporate a flower head between leaves alternating with four cartouches filled with chrysanthemum flower sprays. On the rim chrysanthemum flower sprays with antiquities alternating with peony flower sprays with antiquities. On the reverse two flower sprays.

The decoration on this dish is extremely well preserved with (almost) no wear at all to Chinese Imari (gold) decoration.

Condition: A Y-shaped hairline to the base and a chip to the inner footring.

Reference:

Sargent 2012, p.183

Price: Sold.