Period:Qing dynasty Production date:1735-1745 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, painted,
Subjects:bird dog
Dimensions:Diameter: 22.50 centimetres
Description:
Blue-and-red painted plate with a European design of a dog and birds. This dinner plate is painted in overglaze-blue enamel with a Pekinese dog in the central medallion, bounding on a blue ground with his front legs in mid-air, and four oval cartouches containing a stork, a cockatoo, two doves, and a parrot, all reserved on an iron-red diaper ground.
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![图片[1]-plate BM-Franks.1406-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00357269_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-plate BM-Franks.1406-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00359296_001.jpg)
![图片[3]-plate BM-Franks.1406-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00301005_001.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall and Krahl 1994:The colour scheme of this design appears to be unique. The dog and birds are painted in European style and the simplicity of the decoration with no supporting designs around the dog and birds is most unusual. Diaper is often used in Chinese designs but does not usually continue from the rim over the well to the centre of a plate, like on the present piece. All these features suggest that the design has a European origin, and it bears superficial resemblance to designs by the Dutch artist Cornells Pronk. However, as far as we understand, his work was mainly figurative and the Dutch East India Company records of Pronk’s work do not support such an attribution. A more plausible suggestion seems to be that it was created by Delft potters, who are known to have submitted porcelain designs to the directors of the Dutch East India Company to be copied at Jingdezhen before Pronk’s appointment in 1734 (Howard and Ayers, 1978, vol. I , p. 296).
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, painted,
Subjects:bird dog
Dimensions:Diameter: 22.50 centimetres
Description:
Blue-and-red painted plate with a European design of a dog and birds. This dinner plate is painted in overglaze-blue enamel with a Pekinese dog in the central medallion, bounding on a blue ground with his front legs in mid-air, and four oval cartouches containing a stork, a cockatoo, two doves, and a parrot, all reserved on an iron-red diaper ground.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall and Krahl 1994:The colour scheme of this design appears to be unique. The dog and birds are painted in European style and the simplicity of the decoration with no supporting designs around the dog and birds is most unusual. Diaper is often used in Chinese designs but does not usually continue from the rim over the well to the centre of a plate, like on the present piece. All these features suggest that the design has a European origin, and it bears superficial resemblance to designs by the Dutch artist Cornells Pronk. However, as far as we understand, his work was mainly figurative and the Dutch East India Company records of Pronk’s work do not support such an attribution. A more plausible suggestion seems to be that it was created by Delft potters, who are known to have submitted porcelain designs to the directors of the Dutch East India Company to be copied at Jingdezhen before Pronk’s appointment in 1734 (Howard and Ayers, 1978, vol. I , p. 296).
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