Dish
- Object Name:
- Dish
- Object ID:
- 1980.047.27
- Place of Origin:
- China
- Date:
- 1800-1820
- Description:
- Dish, porcelain, brown painted. Circular dish, hard-paste porcelain, rounded cavetto, no marly, plain edge, slightly raised foot; base 3.25 in diameter. Plain white glaze on exterior, white glaze on interior with painted light and dark orange underglazes. Light orange band edged at the bottom with a thinner, darker orange band, and, at the top, with a pair of thin, darker orange bands. In the center of the light orange band is a chain made of two dark orange interwoven lines, of which, above and below, is a line of dark orange dots. In center of bowl is a dark orange sprig around which is a dark orange scalloped circle. No mark other than "623" written in blue ballpoint ink. Excellent condition. Some mottling, pitting. A few cracks along cavetto exterior.
Related pieces in the collection: 1938.1.1 and 1957.8.46. - Material:
- Ceramic
Porcelain - Dimensions:
- H-1.125 Dia-5.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Part of a large collection of 18th- & 19th-century ceramics, given by their collector, Alma (Mrs. Harold G.) Duckworth (1899-2003) of Orford, N.H.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Alma Duckworth
- People:
- Duckworth, Alma (1899-2003)
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