Period:Qing dynasty Production date:1725-1740 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:plant
Dimensions:Diameter: 26.20 centimetres
Description:
Blue-and-white plate with a European botanical design. It is painted with the same design as BM Franks. 589A, but in different colouring, showing an iris and a lily – like flower with two caterpillars feeding on their petals and leaves, and a butterfly hovering above. The well is painted with an underglaze-blue barbed band with gilt decoration, and the rim with a splendid border of scrolls entwined with long serrated leaves, and interspersed with fruit and flower motifs. Some details are gilded and it has an iron-brown rim.
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![图片[1]-plate BM-Franks.589-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00299805_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-plate BM-Franks.589-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00357556_001.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall and Krahl 1994:This design is very similar in style to drawings by Maria Sybilla Merian (1647-1717), a German-born engraver and painter of watercolours, who made intensive studies of insects and plants and published several illustrated books both on plants and on the metamorphosis of insects. Her illustrations, however, are usually more elaborate than the design on this dish, which may have been copied from a secondary source. The rim border is also derived from a European prototype and has been related to designs by the Dutch artist Cornelis Pronk (Howard and Ayers, 1978, vol. I , p. 304). An enamelled plate of this design in the Mottahedeh collection is illustrated by Howard and Ayers (1978, vol. I, pl. 298), who mention other services painted with related designs of flowers and insects (p. 305) and illustrate a vase from a garniture with similar motifs (fig. 298 a).See also BM Franks. 589A. The origin of this composite design was discovered by C. Jacob-Hanson. See Charlotte Jacob-Hanson, “Maria Sibylla Merian: artist and naturalist,” The Magazine Antiques 158, no. 2 (August 2000), pp. 174-183 (discusses her life and work, including motifs found on the eighteenth-century faience of Höchst and Strasbourg, and on Chinese Chine de commande porcelain).
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:plant
Dimensions:Diameter: 26.20 centimetres
Description:
Blue-and-white plate with a European botanical design. It is painted with the same design as BM Franks. 589A, but in different colouring, showing an iris and a lily – like flower with two caterpillars feeding on their petals and leaves, and a butterfly hovering above. The well is painted with an underglaze-blue barbed band with gilt decoration, and the rim with a splendid border of scrolls entwined with long serrated leaves, and interspersed with fruit and flower motifs. Some details are gilded and it has an iron-brown rim.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall and Krahl 1994:This design is very similar in style to drawings by Maria Sybilla Merian (1647-1717), a German-born engraver and painter of watercolours, who made intensive studies of insects and plants and published several illustrated books both on plants and on the metamorphosis of insects. Her illustrations, however, are usually more elaborate than the design on this dish, which may have been copied from a secondary source. The rim border is also derived from a European prototype and has been related to designs by the Dutch artist Cornelis Pronk (Howard and Ayers, 1978, vol. I , p. 304). An enamelled plate of this design in the Mottahedeh collection is illustrated by Howard and Ayers (1978, vol. I, pl. 298), who mention other services painted with related designs of flowers and insects (p. 305) and illustrate a vase from a garniture with similar motifs (fig. 298 a).See also BM Franks. 589A. The origin of this composite design was discovered by C. Jacob-Hanson. See Charlotte Jacob-Hanson, “Maria Sibylla Merian: artist and naturalist,” The Magazine Antiques 158, no. 2 (August 2000), pp. 174-183 (discusses her life and work, including motifs found on the eighteenth-century faience of Höchst and Strasbourg, and on Chinese Chine de commande porcelain).
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