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Object 2012092

Dish

China

1730-1740

Height 45 mm (1.77 inch), diameter of rim 286 mm (11.26 inch), diameter of footring 163 mm (6.42 inch), weight 643 grams (22.68 ounce (oz.))

Dish on footring with an underglaze brown-edged open lotus-shaped rim (jia mangkou). Decorated in various famille rose enamels and gold. In the centre a flowering peony, Chinese carnation and a lily (auspicious symbols of longevity and eternal youth). On the sides and rim peonies, chrysanthemums and narcissi with leaves, on a spiral diaper ground. On the reverse nine stylized lingzhi fungi of immortality.

The dish is modelled as an open lotus flower and is characteristic of the more de luxe kind of famille rose that was made for the Western market. It fully corresponds to Jingdezhen production of the late Yongzheng and early Qianlong eras, when decoration often appears on dishes and bowls consisting of single floral sprays without rocks, bordered on the edge with floral ornamentation composed into lobed bands on a spiral pattern ground. We can find in worldwide collections a whole range of identical or more-or-less similar patterns, often differing only in minor details. Similar pattern are recorded in Europe from as early as the 1730s. (Suchomel 2015, p.404)

For a similarly decorated dish, please see:

• 300 Treasures, (F. Suchomel, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, Prague, 1997), p.404, cat. 243.

• Sold Ceramics - Sold Famille Rose wares 1725-1800 - Dishes - Page 1 - Object 201017.

• Sold Ceramics - Sold Famille Rose wares 1725-1800 - Dishes - Page 1 - Object 201038.

Condition: Some shallow frits to the footring, two hairlines and a shallow glaze chip to the rim.

References:

Jacquemart & Le Blant 1862, pp. 77-105

Jörg 2003/2, cat. 8

Suchomel 2015, cat. 243

Price: Sold.