Dish
Ceramics
China
Subject/design:
Phoenix in "famille verte"
Materials:
Porcelain
Technique:
"famille verte" enamels
Date:
Qing dynasty (1644-1911), reign of Kangxi (1662-1722)
Size:
Diam. 52 cm
Place of origin:
China, Jiangxi, imperial kilns of Jingdezhen
Mark:
Kangxi mark (1662-1722)
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Description:
With rounded spreading sides and slightly everted lip; wedge-shaped foot. The piece is rather heavily potted. Inside is an all-over design painted in enamels of the famille verte palette with three or four tones of green, light tomato red, an ochreous yellow, brownish aubergine and a rather opaque violet-blue, the drawing being executed in black. A phoenix perches on an old rock from behind which grow branches of flowering prunus and peony and sprays of fruiting peach and (?) pomegranate; three birds flit among the branches. The outside is plain. Inscribed in underglaze blue within a double square on the base is a shop mark.
Inventory number:
CB.CC.1950.548
Copyright:
Fondation Baur
Photographer:
Marian Gérard