Description:
Chinese export porcelain oval dish with the rim decorated with four blue, orange, rose, and gilt torch devices with gilt foliate sprays and two rose, green, and gilt cone-shaped pendants with gilt scrolls; the curvature has a gilt band with an anthemion pattern; and the well is undecorated. According to Catherine Coleman Brawer: "The design is an example of a European pattern adapted to Chinese export porcelain for the Irish and British markets after the East India Company ceased to import porcelain on its own account. The new intricacy of patterns at this time was perhaps made possible by the recent availability of painters who had been previously been kept busy by East India Company orders." Also see plate, HD 62.040B.1 with the McMahon crest and initials "DM" with the same decoration. This dish is probably an undertray for a butter dish.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome; Porcelain Link to share this object record:
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