Object Detail
Description
dish, oval, four small shaped feet with flat base and raised, everted rim; the dish stands upon four raised feet with moulded scroll decoration.
The dish is hand-painted with underglaze blue and features a landscape scene with rocks, foliage, chrysanthemums and birds; the birds include peacocks and swallows in flight, a Chinese pheasant and doves in the branches of a shrub, a crane standing to the right and two ducks (grebes?).
The border design shows four lotus type flowers interspersed with scrolled foliage. The underside of the dish is covered with a large number of stilt marks and the four feet have been left unglazed. A Chinese four character mark is in underglaze blue at the centre.
Chinese Export ware
The dish is hand-painted with underglaze blue and features a landscape scene with rocks, foliage, chrysanthemums and birds; the birds include peacocks and swallows in flight, a Chinese pheasant and doves in the branches of a shrub, a crane standing to the right and two ducks (grebes?).
The border design shows four lotus type flowers interspersed with scrolled foliage. The underside of the dish is covered with a large number of stilt marks and the four feet have been left unglazed. A Chinese four character mark is in underglaze blue at the centre.
Chinese Export ware
Maker and role
manufacturer: unknown
Production place
China
Production date
circa 1760
Media description
porcelain, underglaze blue, hand-painted
Measurements
35 x 240 x 322 mm
Inscriptions
A Chinese four character mark is in underglaze blue at the centre
Credit line
Foundation Collection, 1989
Project credit line
This digital record has been made available on TJC Collection Online through a significant donation from the OPENING DOORS fund, the generous support of The Friends of The Johnston Collection, and Digitisation Champion Christine Bell
Accession number
A0219
TJC reference number
269
