Plate
18th century (made)
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Symbols of unions and allegories of love were popular subjects on Chinese export porcelain ordered to celebrate special occasions, such as weddings and anniversaries. This dish may have been commissioned as part of an anniversary service for the Dutch market.
The naïvety of the design suggests that the ship's supercargo himself may have sketched it for the Chinese decorators. The rococo border of scrolls, sprays and lattice pattern copies a Du Paquier design popular in the mid 18th century.
The naïvety of the design suggests that the ship's supercargo himself may have sketched it for the Chinese decorators. The rococo border of scrolls, sprays and lattice pattern copies a Du Paquier design popular in the mid 18th century.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels |
| Brief description | Plate, porcelain painted in colours with Dutch family and monograms, China, Qing dynasty, mid 18th century |
| Physical description | Dish with a Dutch couple holding hands in a garden, with their daughter. The woman and the daughter point out to the husband a young man shooting at a bird in a tree; a panel above contains two linked monograms, separated by a heart and with other emblems of marriage. Around the foliated rim runs a rococo border of scrolls, sprays and a lattice work in the same predominant orange red, green, red, purple, black and blue. |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Basil Ionides |
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| Summary | Symbols of unions and allegories of love were popular subjects on Chinese export porcelain ordered to celebrate special occasions, such as weddings and anniversaries. This dish may have been commissioned as part of an anniversary service for the Dutch market. The naïvety of the design suggests that the ship's supercargo himself may have sketched it for the Chinese decorators. The rococo border of scrolls, sprays and lattice pattern copies a Du Paquier design popular in the mid 18th century. |
| Bibliographic reference | Kerr, Rose and Luisa E. Mengoni Chinese Export Ceramics London: V&A Publishing, 2011, p.66, p.72, pl.85 |
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| Accession number | C.30-1951 |
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| Record created | February 26, 2003 |
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