Platter
Date1770-1800
Geography
Made -
China
Medium/TechniquePorcelain (hard-paste)
DimensionsOverall (H x W x D): 1 3/16 in. x 13 in. x 9 15/16 in. (3.02 cm x 33.02 cm x 25.24 cm)
Credit LinePurchased by the A. Alfred Taubman Acquisition Endowment Fund, 1999
Object numberM-4062
DescriptionOctagonal platter with notched or indented corners and a flat, unglazed foot, decorated in underglaze cobalt blue. Centered in the well is a right-anchored landscape with a two-story pavilion with a figure inside it surrounded by a swastika fence, two figures in the fields, and a figure (facing left) on a humpback bridge. There is a hut in the left background at top, a small two-story pavilion at left center with three ship's masts visible in the water beside it, and a fisherman in a sampan or flat-bottomed boat in the river at lower left. The sides of the well feature a trellis-diaper border. The rim has a "Fitzhugh" type border of butterflies, fishroe-diaper, scale-diaper, trellis-diaper, hatching, and foliage framed by a scalloped band. Pattern Name: A generally accepted name for the design on this object has not been recorded in the standard reference works
Published ReferencesChristie, Manson & Woods International Inc., The James L. Britton Collection of Americana, Sales Catalogue 9068 (New York: Christie's, 1999), Lot # 899.
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