Decorated in famille verte enamels with a lady holding a fan and a boy in a rocky garden with a fence. The left of the background is decorated with the roof of a pavilion in clouds and a moon. The rim is painted with four cartouches reserved on a ground with lotus flowers and scrolls. The so-called ‘pie-crust rim’ is modelled after a European metal or ceramic dish. The reverse is blank with the Dresden inventory mark N129, incised and blackened.
A larger dish with this decoration is still in the Porzellansammlung, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Inv. no. PO 3815).
In the early 18th century, Augustus the Strong converted the Japanese Palace in Dresden into a porcelain castle to display his opulent collection of Chinese and Japanese porcelain.
The inventory of the Dresden collection describes :
128. 4 octagonal “bowls”, painted inside with a woman and child, and having broad, lobed rims in red, 1¾ in. deep, 14¾ in. in diam.
129. 4 like items, 1¾ in. deep and 13½ in. in diam
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