Asian Ceramics

Dutch decorated

Chinese porcelain plate, with brown (iron oxide) rim. Polychrome decoration of the allegory of Taste; a lady is about to eat a fruit, a monkey eats from dish full of fruit. A wine glass (a tazza) and a large ewer stand in the front. In the back there are people picking apples. Beneath the decoration the words: De Smaak (The Taste).

Chinese porcelain (Jing-de-zhen) decorated in Holland, probably in the city of Delft.

First half 18th century.

Diameter: 21,0 cm.

Depicted in: Helen Espir, European decoration on oriental porcelain (1700-1830), Jorge Welsh Books, 2005, number 931.