This blue and white saucer is decorated in the central medallion with a landscape depicting two birds flying above a pavilion beside pine and willow trees and a sampan and a pagoda on a distant island surrounded by stylised clouds. Surrounding it is a thick blue border on the outermost rim and a border of spearhead and dumbbell motifs facing the central medallion. This saucer comes in a set with a matching cup. Uncovered from an English shipwreck called ‘Diana’ that sank off the Straits of Malacca in 1817, this saucer is one of the many Jingdezhen export wares found on the ship. Some of the export wares in the Diana cargo were catered towards American tastes and were very popular with the American market and with the Anglo-Indian upper classes in India.
