Blue & White 1810-25 'Octagonal Chinoiserie' PLATTER

Pottery : Antique : Blue & White

 

Indented rim platter, in dark to medium blue, with an octagonal center well frame and octagonal rim vignettes. The center scene features a castle and pagoda, a water buffalo, and 3 Oriental figures apparently having a picnic. One, a child, holds out a plate to be served. The border has eight, eight-sided cartouches alternating between flowers-grouping and a dog with 2 of the picnic figures. The ground has a Chinoiserie, geometrical repeat over-all pattern. Unmarked, except for a deeply impressed '14'. Flat bottom with no foot ring. The backside rim has three, tri-cornered stilt marks. Thick blue rippled glaze, unevenly applied, with 4 teensy pops and a bubble, pattern side. Ground is clean, creamy-white with no crazing, no discoloring.

Condition: Excellent. Rubbing to bottom rim. NO damage, NO repairs. 3, single stilt marks on pattern-side rim.

SIZE: 14-1/2" by 11".

REFERENCE: A.W.Coysh, "Blue and White Transfer Ware: 1780-1840", pp`108,109, Fig.168,(below left).

Item ID: pltr.4