Deep dish (one of a pair)
China
1780-1820
Measurements
1 in x 8-5/8 in (dia)
Materials
Gilded and underglaze blue decorated porcelain
Credit Line
Historic Odessa Foundation, anonymous loan
Accession Number
2011.9
Condition Notes
The dish has two tiny chips in the rim. Gilt stringing on the rim and inside the bowl has almost entirely worn away.
Provenance
Ex coll. H. Rodney Sharp
Comments
This deep dish, one of a pair with accession no. 2011.8, is particularly well-made and decorated. The scene inside the bowl is the conventional image of Chinese buildings and trees on the right side separated by water from an island-like body of land with a pagoda on it. A Chinese boat is in the water, and two birds fly in the sky. A band of hexagonal cells runs around the booge (the upward-curving base of the sidewalls), and another diapered border, related to so-called Fitzhugh patterns, decorates the rim.
This deep dish differs from its mate in the details of the image. For example, the birds on this dish are readily recognizable but extrapolated on the other plate. The trees and other images are rendered differently.
For other fine examples of this style, see accession nos. 2011.10 through 2011.14, all of which share the same 20th century provenance and may have been parts of the same service. Those without gilding may have had it removed if it had worn from use.
