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Dish with Strainer

Dateca. 1823

OriginAsia, China, Jingdezhen

MediumHard-paste porcelain

DimensionsOverall: 17 × 14in. (43.2 × 35.6cm)

Credit LineMuseum Purchase, The Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors

Object number2023-326,A&B

DescriptionMazzarene: oblong oval dish of hard-paste porcelain with ogee rim and instep for oval conforming strainer with three concentric rows of hole and a central large hole, the undersides of the dish and the strainer insert unglazed. The dish painted with a pink (puce), brown, and gold border of leafy grape vines with grape clusters. The center of the dish decorated with the crest of a bird's head clasping a branch between its beak on a gold and blue torse above a red and gold heart-shaped shield supported by s- and c-scrolls and two branches; the shield encloses the cypher "CM / J" in feathered script. The strainer painted ensuite with the same grapevine border, but the center painted with two opposing crested shields.
Label TextOwned by Virginian US Naval commander Thomas ap Catesby Jones and his wife Mary Walker Carter Jones, this mazzarene or strainer dish was part of a bespoke Chinese porcelain dinner service probably ordered at the time of the couple’s marriage in 1823.
ProvenanceCirca 1823, ordered and purchased by Thoams ap Catesby Jones and Mary Walker Jones (Fairfax County, VA); November, 2023 [Polly Latham Asian Art, Boston MA]; 2023-present, purchased by The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Williamsburg, VA)