Description:
Chinese export porcelain round plate decorated in rose, blue, purple, green, orange, white, black, and gilding, which may have been made for the Islamic (possibly Persian) market. According to Howard and Ayers, a considerable quantity of Chinese porcelain was exported to the Turkish empire, Persia, and the native states of India in the 18th and 19th centuries, much of it using the decorative motifs which were echoed in the designs on tin-glazed and other wares made in these countries. Pottery and porcelain made for these markets has always used stylized flowers, intricate geometric patterns, and inscriptions from the poets and religious texts; the human form should not be used in Islamic art so that the occasional pictorial motifs must be of animals, birds, or inanimate objects. The center well has a blue and gilt flower spray in a red circle, from which come a series of concentric rings made up of a variety of shapes such as shells, cornucopia, scrolls, garlands, butterflies, flowers, trellis/dot diaper motifs, and green scalloped borders, all on a gold ground. There is a hand-written note attached to the back: "64.129 / White areas on front flouresce purple under short wave UV. Back flouresce white."
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome; Porcelain Link to share this object record:
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