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Subject:Re: Ming or Qing Dragon Lotus Blue White Charger?
Posted By: snap Sun, Aug 09, 2015
European "Delft" ware never had a white paste. Its soft milky-white glaze with tin content for opacity nearly always chipped somewhere so that one can see the iron-red (terra-cotta) clay.
The decoration of post-Yuan scrolling on the lip and the lotus scrolling in cavetto are well beyond the abilities of European decorators'
"Chinoiserie" painters, who did not understand the motifs at all well.
The decoration of this dish also is well beyond the abilities of someone who was merely copying them from another dish.
With the speckled ware/glaze and decorative qualities, I think the suggestion of Vietnamese ware is likely, the decoration probably by one of Chinese background. There were and are lots of Chinese-background folk in Vietnam, and this dish was probably made for this community. Placing age is beyond my knowledge -- but it may not be very old, perhaps 20th century.
The 4-claw dragon is not especially significant, although many would say this places the dish's manufacture outside of Japan.
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