Dish
This leaf-shaped dish, used to serve pickles or condiments or as a stand for a sauceboat, may have been part of a set owned by George Washington. A series of delicately painted borders encircles the central design with two figures before a fenced pavilion complex and two figures with a fishnet on a rock at left. This scene was one of the wide variety of landscape patterns produced by Chinese artisans for Western consumers at the end of the eighteenth century.
Pattern Names: Two People before a Walled Pavilion