SAUCER DISH

"...decorated with crimson & yellow flowers on a leaf shaped reserve laid on a background of brown curl work and white blossoms." Slightly gilt on brown leaves. Gulland (1911:117): "Plates as used by the Chinese themselves ha no rims, but are saucer -shaped, some being deep and some shallow, called "dishes", or "saucer dishes" ...Collectors may have a preference for dishes, partly because of the old belief that the Chinese did not export their best wares, and therefore that more care was taken in the manufacture and decoratio of their home shapes, and partly perhaps to the fact that plates were not mad in China till such time as the Chinese commenced to make foreign shapes in fulfilment of European orders; but that is so long ago that it should not weig nowadays. In the later times, there can be no doubt just as good work was put the plate as on the dish...". Ann Roberts: A ' famille-rose' saucer dish, the centre with flower sprays within a leaf-shaped panel outlined in green and reserved on a sepia-scroll ground strewn with prunus and bamboo.

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