plate (dish)

Dish; flat, round shape. The flag with relief pattern. Painting in lower glaze blue. The border with a lattice border, the throat with a pattern of lattice with flowers and four reserves with flowers and the mirror painted entirely with an East Asian landscape. On the underside in blue above the glaze: “Vienne. 10.Marty1732.” Chinese plate of the Kang Xi period, dated later in Vienna. It is unusual to find such a well-dated porcelain of Du Paquier from the 1730s. This circumstance and the rather unfavorable painting could argue that the plate was decorated by an apprentice or served as a sample for a new underglaze blue recipe. Especially interesting is the fact that he never left the factory until its closure in 1864. In 1865 and 1866 a total of 1069 objects from the manufactory came to the newly founded k. k. Austrian Museum of Art and Industry (present-day MAK), including a few porcelain from the Du-Paquier period. The other pieces came from the Staatliche Manufaktur, Meißen (20), Saint-Cloud (29) and other European porcelain manufactures. Some wax models were also transferred to the museum. (MC, Melinda and Paul Sullivan Foundation for Decorative Arts) Round plate with squeezed Chinese ornaments on the edge. In the mirror in blue a Chinese water landscape. On the back, the inscription in blue: Vienna 10. Martij 1732. (Catalogue of Emperor Franz Josef Museum Troppau, 1903)