Dish

Object Details

• Description

  Dish. Porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt and overglaze enamels in the doucai style with design of three cocks in a garden.

  Clay: porcelain. Some iron flecks at edge of glaze on foot.

  Decoration: double bands painted in underglaze cobalt inside the rim, defining the cavetto, outside the rim, and around the outside wall of the foot; single band at angle of outside wall and foot. Pictorial motifs in bottom and on outside rendered in underglaze cobalt and filled with translucent enamels in red, green, yellow, and aubergine. In bottom, design of three cocks in a garden; on outside, design of four large butterflies alternating with four small butterflies.

  Mark: not marked.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Cornucopia: Ceramics of Southern Japan (December 19, 2009 to January 9, 2011)

• Origin

  Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Mrs. Henry Noel

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1820s, 1850s

• Place

  China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen

• Topic

  Porcelain, Art, Animals, Insects, Chinese Art, Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911), Ceramics, Jingdezhen ware, Butterflies, Daoguang reign (1821 - 1850)

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)