Dish (Dish (archaeological fragment))

Description

The lime (alkaline) glazed hard-paste porcelain dish is in the so-called kraak porselain style a slightly flaring horizontal rim and a concave-sided, shallow well. The slightly raised footrim is wiped clean of glaze. The border consists of panels with symbolic motifs such as peaches, artemesia leaves, and ruyi heads interspersed with radiating panels with dots. The central reserve features an eight-pointed star-like motif with an auspicious symbol at the center. The underrim markings include repeating, roughly square panels with berry-like motifs. A rectangular paper tag on the underside has the printed inscription "Recovered from the wreck/ of the Dutch East Indian/ sunk off the Island of S/ Helena in 1613"