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Lot Essay
These four dishes are part of a table centre piece which would have also consisted of a large octagonal centre dish and two smaller and two larger side dishes together probably forming a large lotus flower.
The centre dish of this set is in the collection of the Groninger Museum, Groningen (inv.no. 1983-215). The dish is decorated with a Buddha in enlightenment flanked by the same Guanyin as on these four dishes, it has the same border decoration and is marked with a similar E to the base. See Mededelingenblad Nederlandse Vereniging van Vrienden van Ceramiek, no.140, 1990/4, p.20, nr.26 for a colour illustration and a discussion by Christiaan Jörg. The author attributes the decoration to originate from engravings in 17th Century travelling descriptions and compares the decoration to a print in O. Dapper, Gedenkwaardig Bedrijf der Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Maatschappye op de kuste ien in het keizerrijk van Taising of Sina, etc., Amsterdam, 1670, Deel 2, the plate across from p.111, although the exact original is not known. Until the present any other dishes of this set were not known to exist.
The centre dish of this set is in the collection of the Groninger Museum, Groningen (inv.no. 1983-215). The dish is decorated with a Buddha in enlightenment flanked by the same Guanyin as on these four dishes, it has the same border decoration and is marked with a similar E to the base. See Mededelingenblad Nederlandse Vereniging van Vrienden van Ceramiek, no.140, 1990/4, p.20, nr.26 for a colour illustration and a discussion by Christiaan Jörg. The author attributes the decoration to originate from engravings in 17th Century travelling descriptions and compares the decoration to a print in O. Dapper, Gedenkwaardig Bedrijf der Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Maatschappye op de kuste ien in het keizerrijk van Taising of Sina, etc., Amsterdam, 1670, Deel 2, the plate across from p.111, although the exact original is not known. Until the present any other dishes of this set were not known to exist.