Deep dish (one of a pair)
China
1780-1820
Measurements
1-5/8 in x 9-5/8 in (dia)
Materials
Gilded and underglaze-blue decorated porcelain
Credit Line
Historic Odessa Foundation, anonymous loan
Accession Number
2011.8
Condition Notes
Gilt stringing on the rim and inside the bowl has almost entirely worn away. Otherwise, the deep dish is in excellent condition.
Provenance
Ex coll. H. Rodney Sharp
Comments
This attractive deep dish, which is a pair with accession no. 2011.9, was used for soups, stews, and similar foods. The decoration shows a landscape of Chinese buildings on the right, separated from a pagoda-like building by water and a boat on the left with two birds in the sky. Variations of this image remained popular for many decades. The bands around the rim and booge (the curved edge at the platter bottom), composed of a diapered lattice with detail below and a hexagonal cell band, also decorate Chinese porcelains of the same date in the Fitzhugh pattern. Slightly later variations of the decoration on this dish are often termed Nanking porcelain, so named because they were decorated in Nanking for the Western market.
For another fine example of this style, see an oval platter accession no. 2011.14.
