A Chinese famille verte dish from the Dresden collection. Kangxi
Decorated in famille verte enamels with a lady holding a fan and a boy in a rocky garden with a fence. The left of the background is decorated with the roof of a pavilion in clouds and a moon. The rim is painted with four cartouches reserved on a ground with lotus flowers and scrolls. The so-called ‘pie-crust rim’ is modelled after a European metal or ceramic dish. The reverse is blank with the Dresden inventory mark N129, incised and blackened.
- Country:
- China
- Period :
- Kangxi (1662-1722)
- Material:
- Porcelain
- Dimension:
- 12.59 in. (32 cm)
- Reference :
- E511
- Price:
- upon request
- Status:
- available
Provenance
Auguste II the Strong, Elector of Saxony, King of Poland
Mark N 129 (Dresden inventory of 1721)
Related works
A larger dish with this decoration is still in the Porzellansammlung, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Inv. no. PO 3815).
Notice
In the early 18th century, Augustus the Strong converted the Japanese Palace in Dresden into a porcelain castle to display his opulent collection of Chinese and Japanese porcelain.
The inventory of the Dresden collection describes :
128. 4 octagonal “bowls”, painted inside with a woman and child, and having broad, lobed rims in red, 1¾ in. deep, 14¾ in. in diam.
129. 4 like items, 1¾ in. deep and 13½ in. in diam
