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A Blue and White 'Long Eliza' Deep Dish.
Of circular form with foliate rim, decorated in shades of underglaze blue depicting two 'Long Elizas' in elegant robes, looking on at a small boy playing, the borders adorned with six cartouches with alternating floral and figural decoration; the three floral cartouches each containing either chrysanthemum, peony or prunus blooms, while the three figural cartouches each contain two ladies kneeling below either plantain, bamboo, or willow branches; the reverse decorated with six panels each containing a large ruyi-head, the outer rim with six floral sprays, the base glazed.
Period: Kangxi (1662 – 1722).
Footnote: The elegant, slender women depicted on this dish was a popular motif for porcelain produced in Jingdezhen during the reign of the Kangxi Emperor. In China, they were known as mei ren ('beautiful women'), and lange lijzen ('long Elizas') in Dutch.
Dimensions
Diameter: 28cm; 11 insThe BADA Standard
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