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Dish
Porcelain (hard-paste)
1785-1795
Dish
Dish
Porcelain (hard-paste)
1785-1795
Dish Porcelain (hard-paste) 1785-1795
Status
Not on view
Label Text

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.

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Date1785-1795
Geography Made - China
Medium/TechniquePorcelain (hard-paste)
DimensionsOverall (H x W x D): 13/16 in. x 7 1/2 in. x 5 1/2 in. (2.06 cm x 19.05 cm x 13.97 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, 1950
Object numberW-1501/B
DescriptionTriangular or leaf-shaped dish with a plain rim on a flat, unglazed foot, decorated in underglaze cobalt blue. Centered in the well is a right-anchored landscape with a walled, two-story pavilion flanked by two pines and two figures within the lattice-fenced forecourt. In the left middle-ground, two figures on a rock hold a fishing net and there is a flat-top bridge in the left foreground. A coin design band with triangle reserves enclosing flowers encircles the central design. The interior sides of the dish have an upper diaper-dot band and a lower scallop or swag border.

Pattern Names: Two People before a Walled Pavilion

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