Plate
The plate is complete, except for a small chip near the rim. It is circular in shape, with a plain rim. The rim is thin and sloping inwards, while the wall is curved towards the rounded base. On the reverse, it rests on a ring-shaped foot with a wide, flat, glaze-free base. The center is recessed and flat. The bottom glaze has two different small circular flaws that resemble traces of pernette. The decoration is hand-painted in polychrome of underglaze blue and overglaze red and gilding, on the front and reverse of the object. The decoration is vegetal, in the Kraak style from China, but in Imari polychrome from Japan. The inner surface of the object is entirely decorated. There is a wide fillet near the edge. The rim and wall are decorated with compartments, divided into two alternating types. The larger compartments are trapezoidal in shape, with a corrugated top and a simple net around the outer edge. Each houses a different ribboned object, similar to the emblems of the Eight Immortals or the Eight Precious Objects, or a long-stemmed flower resembling a sunflower; the objects are painted blue and the ribbons red with gilding, while the flowers are painted blue and their hearts red with gilding. Between these compartments are strips of the same length, but narrower than the compartments. They are separated into three zones by double horizontal lines: their central part is decorated with three superimposed solid pearls, traced in red with gilding, or with a bow made from a curved ribbon and fitted with a ring, traced and painted in red with gilding. The ends of the tongues are decorated with superimposed rows of scales or solid angled sticks, painted blue. The central decoration is encircled by a double ring. It consists of a lakeside landscape, featuring leafy and flowering plants on a solid wavy terrace. On the reverse, the entire wall is decorated with long blue foliage with red highlights. The base of the wall is adorned with an annular fillet, while a double fillet adorns its junction with the foot; another fillet adorns the center of the background; all are painted blue. The rim of the plate is painted with a wide dark blue fillet, which has run off in places on the reverse.
- Accession Number 2018.10.631
- Date 1700 c
- Materials ceramics, fine hard porcelain from Japan
- Measurements 1,7 x 19,9107 cm
- Accession Number 2018.10.631
- Date 1700 c
- Materials ceramics, fine hard porcelain from Japan
- Measurements 1,7 x 19,9107 cm
© Collection Pointe-à-Callière, Paul-Gaston L'Anglais fonds,2018.010.0631
Photo by René Bouchard
- On display
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