Description:
Octagonal shaped plate with octagonal reserve on the well with a scene of a water landscape painted in blue. The scene featuring a castle flying a pennant with several towers situated on the edge of a body of water or estuary, with two sail boats in the background. The rim and cavetto decorated with a manganese powdered ground and four hexagonal panels of thistles alternating with four quatrefoil panels of floral sprigs. The design source for the central scene is possibly a 1740 engraving titled "An exact Account of Vice Admiral Vernon's taking the Castle & Town of Chagre in ye West-Indies." Although powdered grounds had been in use on delftware since the seventeenth century, this dish was inspired by the Chinese porcelains of the Kangxi period (1662-1722). At that time, Chinese potters developed a technique of spraying finely powdered pigment onto the porcelain surface. By blowing the color through a bamboo tube covered at the end with gauze, the particles landed on the surface in an uneven pattern;.removable paper cutouts protected surface areas from decoration. These Chinese wares arrived in the western market in the early eighteenth century, and had a great influence upon delftware potteries and English porcelain (Bow, Worcester, and Caughley). Condition: Small chip in one corner, minor abrasions on edge.
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