A set of eight Chinese blue and white 'Scheveningen' plates

KANGXI (1662-1722)

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A set of eight Chinese blue and white 'Scheveningen' plates
Kangxi (1662-1722)
Painted in the Japanese style copying a Dutch Delft original in the manner of Frederik van Frytom, the pattern traditionally also known as 'Deshima Island', depicting three figures and a bull in the foreground of various buildings around a harbour, all within a washed-blue wave-pattern border on the flat everted rim (rim frittings, two repaired, one with rim crack)
19.4cm. diam. (8)

Literature

COMPARATIVE!!!!!
Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chine de Commande, Londen, 1974, pl. 272, illustrated, in the Museum De Sypesteyn, Loosdrecht.
D. Howard and J. Ayers, China for the West, Londen, 1978, vol. 1, no. 32, illustrated, from the Mottahedeh Collection.
Le Corbeiller, China Trade Porcelain: Patterns of Exchange, New York, 1974, pl. 10, illustrated.

Lot Essay

The view of this well-known pattern is thought to depict the Dutch coastal town Scheveningen, possibly inspired by a Dutch Delft plate by the well-known pottery painter Frederick van Frytom (1652-1702). A Japanese Arita dish painted with a similar landscape included in the Exhibition Interaction in Ceramics, Oriental Porcelain and Delftware, Hong Kong, 1984, Catalogue, no. 65, is known in the Netherlands as a 'view of Scheveningen' and is also illustrated by Howard & Ayers, op. cit., fig. 32a. This scene has also been referred to as Deshima Island, near Nagasaki, which was the V.O.C.'s headquarters in Japan from 1641-1862, but considering the stylistic similarities with the Delft prototypes and the characteristically Dutch details of this scene, seems unlikely.

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