Plate
Name/Title
PlateEntry/Object ID
67.388Description
Circular charger or large dish standing on a foot rim, painted in the Imari palette of underglaze blue and overglaze red and gold, with an iron brown wash on the edge of the rim; a band of diaperwork with four reserve panels on the rim; a blue line at the edge of the well; and an asymmetrical floral spray with peonies and prunus blossoms in the well. On the underside of the rim are two floral sprays. Large dishes like this would have been used for serving food. The charger has been broken in half and stapled, and has a paper label on the underside that reads “H.A. EBERHARDT & SON/ ART & CHINA RESTORERS/ 2010 WALNUT ST. PHILA. PA” and an illegible pencil inscription. Saucer-shaped dishes with similar decoration in the collection of the Topkapi in Istanbul are dated 1710-1730 (Krahl and Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum (1986), III:1215 Dishes from the same set: L2014.1.41. 67.105, 67.389Collection
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