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A ‘BLUE AND WHITE’ LARGE DISH
Qing dynasty, Kangxi period, early 18th century
47,5 cm diam.
Provenance: Naples, Villa della Floridiana, Museo Duca di Martina, Placido de Sangro (1829-1891) collection.
inv. n. 1562.
The redundant decoration on this dish perfectly matched with the Baroque style that was prevalent in Europe between the late seventeenth and the early eighteenth century.
Dishes with a similar exuberant floral decoration arranged in petal-shaped panels can be found in the following museums: Victoria And Albert Museum, London (R. Kerr, Chinese Ceramics. Porcelain of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), London 1986, pp. 63-65, n. 39), the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul (R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, 3 voll., London 1986, III, pp. 1049-1050, n. 2300), the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (C.J.A. Jörg, in collaboration with J. Van Campen, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. The Ming and Qing Dynasties, London 1997, p. 95, n. 84), the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon (M.A. Pinto de Matos, Chinese Porcelain in the Calouste Gulbenkian Collection, Lisbon 2003, pp. 70-72, n. 11), the Porzellansammlung in Dresden, form the collection of Augustus the Strong (1670-1733) (inv. PO 2081).
Other similar dishes can be seen among the porcelains displayed in the Peacock Room, commissioned by Frederick R. Leyland (1831-1892) for his London home in 1876, designed by Thomas Jeckyll (1827-1881) and decorated with mural paintings with oriental theme by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), now in the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington D.C..
The museum owns also another very similar dish (inv. n. 1564).
