Sold Ceramics - Sold Batavia Brown (Capucin wares) 1700-1800 - Wheel engraved
Object 2011582
Saucer
China
1720-1730
Height saucer 20 mm (0.83 inch), diameter of rim 103 mm (4.17 inch), diameter of footring 56 mm (2.44 inch), weight 55 grams (1.94 ounce (oz))
Saucer on footrings with a straight slightly flaring rim. Batavia Brown covered with underglaze dark brown and underglaze-blue with flowering plants in a double circle, on the sides and rim four flowering stems. On the reverse a continuous, wheel engraved, decoration of birds and flowering scrolls. Marked on the base with the symbol mark: Conch shell, one of the eight Buddhist Emblems, in a double circle, underglaze blue.
For similarly, wheel engraved Batavia Brown wares, please see:
- Treasures of Chinese Export Ceramics from the Peabody Essex Museum, (W.R. Sargent, Salem, Massachusetts, 2012), p.504, plate 276.
- European Decoration on Oriental Porcelain 1700-1830, (H. Espir, Jorge Welsh Books, London, UK, 2005), p.59, cat 12.
Wheel engraving cuts through the glaze and reveals the porcelain´s white body. This European technique was first developed for glass around 1590 to 1605, an then applied to ceramics. It was practiced in Dresden, Bohemia, and Silesia during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Designs were cut into the surfaces of glass and ceramics using copper wheels of varying sizes and abrasives. The wheel/cutting technique resulted in a slight blurring of the edges between the glazed surface and the exposed porcelain body, rather than the sharp edge that cutting implies. (Sargent 2012, p.504)
Condition: Two, professionally, restored frits to the rim.
References:
Lunsingh Scheurleer 1989, p.133
Sargent 2012, p. 505, cat. 276
Price: Sold.
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