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Large Chinese-style English Porcelain Dish made for Indian Market
England
circa 1900
diameter: 31cm, height: 5.7cm
This dish, decorated with a cobalt-blue transfer pattern, emulates a common design painted on Chinese porcelain made for export to South and Southeast
Asia in the nineteenth century, but was made in England for the Indian market as an attempt to compete with Chinese kilns head on in the eastern export
market. Typically, such dishes were made in Jingdezhen.
Dutch as well as British ceramics makers competed with Chinese porcelain for these markets in this way from around 1850. Transfer printing techniques were
perfected in 1761 and this allowed the mass emulation of Chinese designs on earthenware.
The design which closely follows how Chinese export porcelain for these markets had evolved is based on chrysanthemum blooms and the scrolling Islamic
calligraphy which has become so stylised as to be nothing more than a series of squiggles.
The base is impressed with a triangle or 'V' mark to denote the originating pottery, probably a pottery in or near London.
Provenance: Acquired by the previous owner in India in the 1950s.
References: Bennett, J., Crescent Moon: Islamic Art & Civilisation in Southeast Asia, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2005.
Inventory no.: 1009
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Large Chinese-style English Porcelain Dish made for Indian Market
England
circa 1900
diameter: 31cm, height: 5.7cm
This dish, decorated with a cobalt-blue transfer pattern, emulates a common design painted on Chinese porcelain made for export to South and Southeast
Asia in the nineteenth century, but was made in England for the Indian market as an attempt to compete with Chinese kilns head on in the eastern export
market. Typically, such dishes were made in Jingdezhen.
Dutch as well as British ceramics makers competed with Chinese porcelain for these markets in this way from around 1850. Transfer printing techniques were
perfected in 1761 and this allowed the mass emulation of Chinese designs on earthenware.
The design which closely follows how Chinese export porcelain for these markets had evolved is based on chrysanthemum blooms and the scrolling Islamic
calligraphy which has become so stylised as to be nothing more than a series of squiggles.
The base is impressed with a triangle or 'V' mark to denote the originating pottery, probably a pottery in or near London.
Provenance: Acquired by the previous owner in India in the 1950s.
References: Bennett, J., Crescent Moon: Islamic Art & Civilisation in Southeast Asia, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2005.
Inventory no.: 1009
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