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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 136, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Dish

ca. 1720 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Large porcelain dish, painted in underglaze blue, overglaze polychrome enamels of the famille verte palette and gold with the arms of Dutry with Reneu in pretence. Round the well is a band with four cartouches containing precious emblems on a ground of scrollwork in red and gold, scattered with lotus blooms, and round the rim flower sprays of peony and prunus, with a cell diaper border round the outside; on the reverse are four flower sprays in red.

Arms of Dutry: blazoned Azure a golden stirrup between three estoiles of the second, with Reneu of Bordeaux (and later London) in pretence, Or a chevron gules, in chief tow doves proper respecting each other, in base a serpent nowed argent, on a chief gules three sinister wings argent, all on a framed shield.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted in underglaze blue, overglaze polychrome enamels and gold
Brief description
Porcelain dish painted in overglaze polychrome enamels and gold with the arms of Dutry with Reneu in pretence, Jingdezhen, China, Qing dynasty, ca. 1720
Physical description
Large porcelain dish, painted in underglaze blue, overglaze polychrome enamels of the famille verte palette and gold with the arms of Dutry with Reneu in pretence. Round the well is a band with four cartouches containing precious emblems on a ground of scrollwork in red and gold, scattered with lotus blooms, and round the rim flower sprays of peony and prunus, with a cell diaper border round the outside; on the reverse are four flower sprays in red.

Arms of Dutry: blazoned Azure a golden stirrup between three estoiles of the second, with Reneu of Bordeaux (and later London) in pretence, Or a chevron gules, in chief tow doves proper respecting each other, in base a serpent nowed argent, on a chief gules three sinister wings argent, all on a framed shield.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 49.1cm
Styles
Credit line
Given by Mr P. Cooke
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Kerr, Rose and Luisa E. Mengoni Chinese Export Ceramics London: V&A Publishing, 2011, p.13, pl.6
Collection
Accession number
FE.110-1978

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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