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)

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