Description:
One of a pair of English salt-glazed stoneware press-molded, circular dishes decorated with an orange tiger with its mouth open looking at a red bird-shaped blossom trailing down from a network of vines with orange and yellow flowers. The flat rim, which slopes inward, has red, yellow, blue, green flowers and leaves and a small winged insect. This uncommon "Korean Tiger" design on salt-glaze comes from Japanese Arita porcelain and is associated with Sakaida Kakiemon family. Kakiemon pocelain was brought to Europe as early as the late 17th century, and its designs adapted and copied at Meissen and Chantilly in the early 18th century. By the md 18th century, those designs were also being copied in England - on porcelain at Chelsea and Bow in particular, and on salt-glazed stoneware in Staffordshire. These designs on salt-glazed stoneware are rare, and have been traditionally attributed to Staffordshire or Holland. However, Errol Manners in a paper, "The English Decoration of Oriental Porcelain. Some overlooked groups 1700-1750" read before the English Ceramic Circle in 2003, suggested a London decorating studio. Jonathan Horne (Jan. 23, 1995) thinks that these dishes were decorated by a Dutch painter - a man whose name he could not recall. There is a similar pair in the British Museum acc. no. 1919,0503.81. Another scholar and dealer Errol Manners has suggested that these two dishes could have been decorated by painters at the Limehouse Factory. He believes that a similar hand worked there, and was known for painting cherries with tendrils. An enameled Limehouse creampot has very similar decoration to these dishes.
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