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Objects 2011873AF

 

Six dishes

 

China

 

c.1770

  

2011873A Height 35 mm (1.37 inch), diameter of rim 164 mm (6.46 inch), diameter of footring 96 mm (3.78 inch), weight 218 grams (7.69 ounce (oz.)).

2011873B Height 36 mm (1.42 inch), diameter of rim 162 mm (6.38 inch), diameter of footring 95 mm (3.74 inch), weight 233 grams (8.22 ounce (oz.)).

2011873C Height 36 mm (1.42 inch), diameter of rim 164 mm (6.46 inch), diameter of footring 96 mm (3.78 inch), weight 249 grams (8.78 ounce (oz.)).

2011873D Height 35 mm (1.37 inch), diameter of rim 163 mm (6.42 inch), diameter of footring 95 mm (3.74 inch), weight 230 grams (8.11 ounce (oz.)).

2011873E Height 36 mm (1.42 inch), diameter of rim 165 mm (6.50 inch), diameter of footring 95 mm (3.74 inch), weight 242 grams (8.54 ounce (oz.)).

2011873F Height 32 mm (1.26 inch), diameter of rim 163 mm (6.42 inch), diameter of footring 100 mm (3.93 inch), weight 224 grams (7.90 ounce (oz.)).

 

Six dishes on footrings, straight rims. Each decorated in underglaze blue with a flowering peony growing from a taihu (garden) rock near a pavilion, a perched bird is staring from a circular opening in the pavilion wall towards a phoenix in flight. On the sides and rim four elongated cartouches with pine and bamboo patterns interspersed with half chrysanthemum blossoms on an underglaze blue ground. The reverses are undecorated.

 

Porcelain wares painted in this way were, alongside idealized landscape scenes, another characteristic in underglaze blue painted product for export to Europe from the 1780s on. The 'friends of winter' design, i.e. a scene with bamboo and a pine tree, is complemented with a simple composition of part of a pavilion with taihu (garden) rocks and a bird in flight, regarded in Europe as a crow or cuckoo. A unique set of these wares with this decoration can be found in the Scharzenberg Hluboká collection, consisting mainly of dishes and bowls of various sizes. Some of them were used not only for everyday gastronomic requirements, but also adorned the walls of rooms. (Suchomel 2015, p.264, cat. 140)

 

For an identically decorated bowl and dish, please see;

Conditions:

 

2011873A: A firing flaw to the exterior wall.

2011873B: A firing flaw to the exterior wall.

2011873C: A firing flaw to the base.

2011873D: Firing flaws to the base and exterior wall and a hairline to the rim.

2011873E: A hairline to the rim.

2011873F: A hairline to the rim.

 

Reference:

Suchomel 2015, cat. 140

 

Price: Sold.