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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 Chines 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 another fine example of this style, see an oval platter accession no. 2011.14.