Nyonya – Peranakan – Straits Chinese porcelain dish, underglaze & gold, 19th c.

$495.00 AUD

Small Chinese porcelain dish, painted underglaze with a peony, outlined in gold.
6-character mark,
Yian Yong Yu’
19th century

8.5cm
good condition, minor signs of age

This is an unusual class of Nyonya (otherwise known as Peranakan – Straits Chinese) porcelain, with the addition of gold over blue & white. In straights Chinese porcelain a collectors guide by ho wing Meng, P.122, several pieces illustrated are from Penang, said to have belonged originally to a large set specially commissioned by a wealthy Straits Chinese family for its own use.

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