Chinese dish

Description

Pedestal-footed serving dish, five-lobed, polychrome utilitarian faience, granular in spots. Faint, subtle, yellow-painted rim in lotus petal shapes. Enamel glazes of pink, yellow, pale and deep green floral and blossom motifs with ho-o bird (phoenix) perched on piney nest. Each exterior lobe holds a cluster of grass blades in a rose underglaze. Statuesque foot banded in double circles hold thunder and lightning design; a potter’s mark inside foot. The piece is proud, sturdy, freely drawn; a hefty 1/8” thickness throughout. 8-7/8” diameter. 2-3/8” high overall. 1-1/8” high foot. Post-1900.