Description & Technical information
Qianlong period
Spanish-Mexican Market
A Chinese export porcelain saucer dish brightly enamelled in famille rose with a double headed eagle motif surrounded by vases of flowers and a blue border to the rim.
The double headed eagle shown here is a symbol of St Augustine, who was known as ‘the Hipona Eagle’, suggesting that this dish was made for a Spanish Augustinian order based in Mexico, though others were based in Macao, the Philippines and India.
References: Howard 1994, p231, a Wanli jar with the eagle; Castro 1988, p29, a similar blue jar; there is similar famille rose dish in the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts.
Date: 1745
Period: 1600-1750, 18th century
Origin: China
Medium: porcelain
Dimensions: 35.5 cm (14 inches)
Categories: Oriental and Asian Art

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