Dish

Form: wheel-thrown dish with wide, shallow footrim, fluted cavetto, and foliate rim. Fluting appears to be done by hand.
Clay: porcelain
Glaze: clear, colorless where thin, bluish where thick in uneven application or pooled in foliation of cavetto; worn off around most of rim.
Decoration: in shades of cobalt line and wash. In tondo, central full-faced flower with pointed petals, surrounded by circular frame edged with four cloud-collar motifs facing in four directions and enclosing floral sprays. Attached to double ring at edge of base, in spaces between points of cloud-collar motifs, four semicircular halves of full-face flowers with rounded petals in alternating light and dark blue. On fluted cavetto, angular, double-stemmed “vinescroll” supporting, in alternation, eight full-face flowers with pointed petals (identical to one in center of base) and eight pomegranates nesting in profile-view flowers with pointed petals. On back of cavetto, evenly spaced, three branches with fruits and leaves. In center of base, inside double circle, leaf shape.

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Historical period(s)
Qing dynasty, ca. 1700-1750
Medium
Porcelain with cobalt pigment under clear glaze
Style
Jingdezhen ware
Dimensions
H x Diam: 6 Ɨ 35.7 cm (2 3/8 Ɨ 14 1/16 in)
Geography
China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen
Credit Line
Gift of Harriett C. Mathews in honor of Adriana Johanna Chutter-Kasteleijn
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Accession Number
F1996.30
On View Location
Currently not on view
Classification(s)
Ceramic, Vessel
Type

Dish

Keywords
China, cobalt pigment, flower, Jingdezhen ware, porcelain, Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911)
Provenance

From 1888-1911
Jan S.C. Kasteleign, acquired in Sumatra, Indonesia, in 1888-1911 [1]

To 1996
Mrs. Harriett Mathews, Bethesda, MD, by descent from Jan S.C. Kasteleign, to 1996 [2]

From 1996
Freer Gallery of Art, given by Mrs. Harriett Mathews in 1996

Notes:

[1] The object was acquired by Jan S.C. Kasteleign, the donor's maternal grandfather, who was the Dutch General Manager of Plantations in Sumatra, Indonesia (according to information in the object record). See also, Curatorial Remark 1, Louise A. Cort, August 27, 1996, in the object record.

[2] See note 1.

Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)

Mrs. Harriett Mathews

Description

Form: wheel-thrown dish with wide, shallow footrim, fluted cavetto, and foliate rim. Fluting appears to be done by hand.
Clay: porcelain
Glaze: clear, colorless where thin, bluish where thick in uneven application or pooled in foliation of cavetto; worn off around most of rim.
Decoration: in shades of cobalt line and wash. In tondo, central full-faced flower with pointed petals, surrounded by circular frame edged with four cloud-collar motifs facing in four directions and enclosing floral sprays. Attached to double ring at edge of base, in spaces between points of cloud-collar motifs, four semicircular halves of full-face flowers with rounded petals in alternating light and dark blue. On fluted cavetto, angular, double-stemmed "vinescroll" supporting, in alternation, eight full-face flowers with pointed petals (identical to one in center of base) and eight pomegranates nesting in profile-view flowers with pointed petals. On back of cavetto, evenly spaced, three branches with fruits and leaves. In center of base, inside double circle, leaf shape.

Collection Area(s)
Chinese Art
Web Resources
Google Cultural Institute
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