Description:
Chinese export porcelain octagonal dish with notched corners, decorated in the Famille rose palette in rose, blue, brown, white, green, and gilding. The rim has four alternating peonies and hibiscus sprays. The well has a brown stag standing before a large blue rock covered with flowers and lingzhi (fungus of immortality); under a butterfly and a rose-shaded double yellow gourd (or peaches) and rose, white, and green peony and prunus branches, which are tied with an iron-red tasseled cord and suspended from a gilt loop pendant from the looped gilt band around the outer well. Similar scenes in underglaze blue with deer, rocks, trees, lingzhi, flowers, and insects date to the second half of the 16th century, and were popular in the export trade for 200 years.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome; Porcelain Link to share this object record:
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