Plate
The plate is complete. It is circular with a plain rim. The rim is thick and sloping inwards, while the sock is low and curved towards the flat bottom. On the reverse, the plate rests on a ring-shaped foot, with a wide, glaze-free, partly flat, beveled base. The center is recessed and flat. It shows firing cracks, as well as traces of fine rings and small radiating grooves. The rim has lost a good portion of its glaze; the decoration is molded and hand-painted in blue on the face and reverse. The molded decoration is visible on the marly face; it consists of pairs of grooves between a bulge, perpendicular to the rim and symmetrically distributed from the rim to the wall. The painted decoration is animal-like, in the Kraak style from China. The inner surface of the object is entirely decorated. There is a fillet near the rim, on which an uneven band has been painted in pale blue. The rim and wall are decorated with compartments, divided into two alternating types. The larger compartments are trapezoidal in shape, with rounded upper corners; their outer perimeter is made of a single net, which surrounds a double net, the center of which is painted blue. Each houses a different ribboned object, close to the emblems of the Eight Immortals, or a long-stemmed flower, some of which resemble a sunflower. Between these compartments are strips of the same length, but narrower than the compartments themselves. They are separated into two zones by double horizontal arched and painted lines: their central part is trimmed with three superimposed solid pearls, while the upper part of the strips is adorned with three superimposed rows of wavy lines. These tongues are painted between pairs of molded grooves. The central decoration is encircled by a double ring, containing two concentric octagons with concave sides, the one on the outside being in reserve and the other solid. The space outside the octagons is painted blue and trimmed with alternating scales and scrolls. The main decoration features a lake scene, with a bird seen in profile, standing on rocks and surrounded by leafy and flowering plants. On the reverse, the plate is lined with alternating wide and narrow compartments, delimited by pairs of fillets and closed at the ends by a line, one near the rim and the other at the junction of the wall with the foot. The larger ones have a ring around a pearl, while the others have a wide dash.
- Accession Number 2018.10.620
- Date 1644 c
- Materials ceramics, fine hard China porcelain
- Measurements 2,3 x 20,6111 cm
- Accession Number 2018.10.620
- Date 1644 c
- Materials ceramics, fine hard China porcelain
- Measurements 2,3 x 20,6111 cm
© Collection Pointe-à-Callière, Paul-Gaston L'Anglais fonds,2018.010.0620
Photo by René Bouchard
- On display
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