Bow Porcelain Kakiemon-style Double Quail Pattern Cabbage Leaf Dish,

Circa 1755

(Ref: NY9029-UNCX)

The large Bow porcelain dish is painted with the Double Quail pattern in the Kakiemon style of coloration using principally orange.  The dish with a molded cabbage leaf-shaped body.

The pattern depicts two quails sitting on the ground under an exotic tree with oriental shrubs, flying insects and an iron-red patterned border inside the rim.  This pattern is also known as the "Partridge Pattern" and devives from Japanese Export porcelain know as Kakiemon.

See: The Victoria & Albert Museum Collection for a sauceboat in this same design, (Museum number: C.936-1924, Gallery location: Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery, case 1, shelf 5) which they date 1754-56.