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Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Canton Views

Dish
ca. 1835 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Dish of earthenware with a waved edge with moulded, scalloped decoration. The centre of the dish is decorated with a blue transfer-printed scene of a river with two junks and a shore line edged with pagodas and figures and trees. The scene is surrounded with a geometric line pattern and the whole is bordered with a pattern of flowers and foliate scrolls which extend from the base, up the sides and over the rim.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleCanton Views (series title)
Materials and techniques
Earthenware, transfer-printed in underglaze blue
Brief description
Dish with 'Canton Views' pattern, earthenware transfer-printed in underglaze blue, Knight, Elkin & Co., Fenton, Staffordshire, England, ca. 1835
Physical description
Dish of earthenware with a waved edge with moulded, scalloped decoration. The centre of the dish is decorated with a blue transfer-printed scene of a river with two junks and a shore line edged with pagodas and figures and trees. The scene is surrounded with a geometric line pattern and the whole is bordered with a pattern of flowers and foliate scrolls which extend from the base, up the sides and over the rim.
Dimensions
  • Length: 55.6cm
  • Width: 48.3cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Cartouche mark with 'EKB / Canton Views / OPAQUE / CHINA' (Printed in blue)
  • [Indistinct mark] (Impressed)
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
CIRC.575-1971

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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