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Dish with small, rounded rim, the foot and the glazed base with kiln grit. On the inside, encircled by a wave border a parrot perched on a rock in a landscape with branches and leaves. The well with four sprays growing from rocks, the rim with cross-hatched diapers. The outside with two opposing sprays growing from rocks between bands.
This dish is painted in the same style as the former one with the qilin, and with the same border placing it also in Group I. The decoration is somewhat more delicate and lacks the power of the former dish, although the parrot is rendered in a lively pose, looking backwards as if about to pick its feathers for fleas. The parrot is indigenous to the southern provinces of China. Because of its ability to speak and thus to report about the household it is sometimes looked upon as a warning to women to remain faithful. The dish was collected in Indonesia.
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