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Dish of saucer shape with an out-turned rim, on a channel foot ring. Painted in red, green, yellow, and aubergine enamels and black outlines with a central flower head surrounded by two narrow floral borders, a wider one with scrolling foliage and small pomegranates, and another narrow flower scroll border, these two borders repeated in the well. The reverse with four formal fruit sprays, a flower scroll border at the rim and a lozenge border around the foot.
The design of dense flower and leaf scrolls on this dish is a good example of famille verte export porcelain of the early Kangxi period destined for the Southeast Asian and Middle Eastern markets. The scrolls are forced into registers which could create a certain stiffness of design, however on this very brightly coloured dish this is counteracted by the movement of the leaves and floral elements. The broad channel in the footring is typical of later dishes with this feature. The dish was collected in Indonesia.
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