A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 'JOHN THE BAPTIST' DISH

SECOND QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY

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A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 'JOHN THE BAPTIST' DISH
second quarter of the 18th century
Painted and sponged at the centre with a biblical scene of 'the Baptism of Christ by St. John in the River Jordan' beneath a dove in flight, within landscape cartouches reserved on a cell-pattern ground in the well and a dense leafy and fruiting scroll at the flaring border enclosing an inscription at the bottom Mat.3.1.6. (sic), rim chip and associated crack restored, small rim chips
20in. (51cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

See the similar dish from the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by F. et N. Hervouët and Y. Bruneau, op.cit., p.263, no.11.13; another, illustrated by G. A. Godden, op.cit., p.246, colour pl.14; and another in the Mottahedeh Collection, illustrated by D. Howard & J. Ayers, op.cit., vol.I, p.313, no.306. Compare also the smaller, more simple versions in iron-red, illustrated by F. et N. Hervouët and Y. Bruneau, ibid., p.263, no.11.14; another from the Musée Guimet, Paris, by M. Beurdeley, op.cit., cat.226; one from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, by C. Le Corbeiller, op.cit., p.70, fig.32; and another from the British Museum illustrated by M. Jourdain and R. Soame Jenyns, op.cit., p.117, fig.87.

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