Object Number: Finch 278

Collection: Eastern Art

Object Name: Dish

Description: Matches Finch 183. Dish of porcelain decorated with orange, red and gilt enamels on underglaze blue. In the centre is a design of an orange peony head surrounded by three sylised flames in blue. Surrounding this is a band of blue and gold boxes. The border is decorated with a band of tessellating leaf shapes in orange outline and gold centres. Along the rim are orange swirls on gold. The underside is decorated with a continuous scroll in blue with three red peony heads. Within the footring enclosed in a circle is a four-character mark arranged in a diamond that reads: ????(Japanese: Fuki Choshun), meaning ‘wealth, nobility, longevity, and youth’, also translated as ‘good fortune and long life’ or ‘weath and everlasting spring’. A note left by the collector, Irene Finch (1918-2019), reads: 'revival'.