Underglaze Painted Chinese Porcelain Dish

Approximately a third of a large Mid-Eighteenth-Century Chinese-export porcelain saucer dish with a sloppy blue underglaze painted decoration. The dish has an unglazed, yellowed footring. The motif on the face is a pavilion landscape with willow trees and a bird in flight. The central motif is encircled by a floral pattern with two sets of lines on either side. The rim has a geometric floral pattern with diaper and scroll design. The dish is most likely a molded octagonal due to rim shape. The rim measures to approximately 10 inches in diameter.

• Object number

  261.113, 430.42, 430.41, 430.15, 293.16, 293.9, 293.30, 279.314, 279.497, 279.492

• Date made

  Mid-Eighteenth Century

• Decoration

  Underglaze Painted

• Color

  Blue

• Animals/objects

  Dish

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Tableware

• Material

  Porcelain

• Context

  Lot 28, Privy Deposit: Level 4 (624.430)

• Forms

  Base/Body/Rim

• Ware types

  Chinese

  Porcelain, Hard Paste

• Techniques

  Press Molded