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Dear All

A polychrome dish. Pieces with double ring foot usually will associate to the period of transitional - early Qing. What do you think ?

Regards,
Rudi Liem

Hi Rudi,
No argument from me on this one, which looks to be Kangxi period (1662 to 1722), perhaps a few years earlier.

The finely levigated gutter distinguishes this from the guttered copies which appeared in the late Qing and early Republic periods.

It has always been my belief that these gutters held marbles, which enabled the dish to be used as a "lazy susan", passing the food from diner to diner. Anybody got any better suggestions?

Regards
Tony

Dear Tony,

Thank you very much for your reply. I am happy to get opinion from well-known ceramics expert like you.

Regards,
Rudi Liem

This dish looks it have some age, and does have some kangxi elements such red iron flower on interior rim and style of foot trimming, but other elements do'not look right such as Olive green color
enamel etc. i wonder if this is Japanese piece?

Hi Rudy and Tony,

The ones I've seen with these gutters were Kangxi or (rather)modern so in this case I would go for Kangxi as well. The function, from what I read, is what Tony wrote.

Tony: looking at the decoration I would say Swatow but the base looks very clean for Swatow. What do you think is it Swatow or something like a kind of Swatow copy?

Regards,

Arjan

Dear All,

Has it a chance that the dish to be an Annamese polychrome ? If I am not wrong, there are also Annamese polychrome wares as good quality as Ming polychrome. Just my thought and probably wrong.

Regards,
Rudi Liem

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