Plate
The plate is complete; it is missing around the rim and has been repaired with metal studs. The plate is circular with a plain rim. The rim slopes slightly inwards, the wall is low and the bottom is flat and recessed. The plate rests on a small milled foot, located in line with the outer wall and free of glaze. The plate is broken and has been repaired with metal spikes. The reverse of the plate features five pairs of drilled holes, which accommodate four copper metal spikes. The ends of the spikes are visible on the face. There appears to be a gold-painted mark below the base: C…thorn.; The decoration is hand-painted in blue underglaze and red overglaze, with touches of gilding, in the Imari style. It is of the plant and landscape oriental garden type. The painted decoration is visible on both the inner and outer walls. The decoration on the border is composed of the same group of floral elements, repeated three times and arranged in a triangle. The central element is a blue-painted, leafy, flowering plant with long, wavy side branches. Each is decorated with leaves and flowers traced and painted in red with gold highlights. The central decoration is encircled by a ring traced in blue and features a garden scene, with a three-panel fence resting on an undulating terrace. The terrace is traced in blue and painted in faded blue, while the fence is traced in blue and painted in faded blue and red; the panels are adorned with an opening in the shape of a Ruyi head. The terrace also features a blue-painted boulder with a hole in it, symbolizing the Chinese philosophy of Taoism. Behind the boulder stands a leafy, flowering shrub and the head of a bamboo plant. The shrub is traced and painted blue, and trimmed with flowers and leaves traced in red and painted red and gold. The central bamboo is traced and painted in blue and red. In the background is a sock plant traced and painted blue, and trimmed with flowers and leaves traced in red and painted red and gold. The rim of the plate is covered with a very dark iron-brown coating.
- Accession Number 2018.10.1323
- Date 1770
- Materials ceramics, fine hard-paste porcelain from China
- Measurements 2,6 x 22,2127 cm
- Accession Number 2018.10.1323
- Date 1770
- Materials ceramics, fine hard-paste porcelain from China
- Measurements 2,6 x 22,2127 cm
© Collection Pointe-à-Callière, Paul-Gaston L'Anglais fonds,2018.010.1323
Photo by René Bouchard
- On display
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