18C Kangxi/Yongzheng period Chinese Porcelain Batavian Cobalt Dish China

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Condition Report: some fritspots only. Size: 11.7x2CM DiameterxHeight

Sharing with you this lovely small dish with a combination of batavian brown and cobalt blue.
Country of origin: China
Period: Kangxi/Yongzheng

Batavia brown is a decorative style within Chinese export porcelain using a surface covering brown glaze with or without panels in conjunction with underglaze blue or various enamels like famille rose or Imari. The wares appears to have been named after the city of Batavia (modern days Jakarta) which at that time was the Dutch East India Company trading center in South East Asia.

The decoration also seems to have been particularly popular with the Dutch to which the word Batavia could have been used as a synonym due to the Chinese junk trade and the trans-shipping onto Dutch ships via Batavia.

Export wares with this decoration were common throughout the first half of the 18th century and included rounded dishes, vases, tea pots, tea bowls, saucers, lidded jars and other useful wares.

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