A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE CANTON ENAMEL EUROPEAN-SUBJECT SMALL DISHES

CIRCA 1730

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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE CANTON ENAMEL EUROPEAN-SUBJECT SMALL DISHES
circa 1730
The centre of one enamelled with two European gentlemen holding a sword and spear and walking past a rocky outcrop, the other with a European lady seated beside a low table beside a young boy offering her a flower on a terrace, each scene surrounded by oval floral cartouches reserved on a yellow trellis-pattern ground, the reverse of each with a winged mythical beast in the base surrounded by prunus heads on a cracked-ice-pattern ground
4.5/8 in. (11.8 cm.) diam. (2)

Lot Essay

These scenes were probably taken from European prints; however the Chinese landscape and terrace setting of these dishes, as well as the Chinese taste decoration on the reverses may indicate that they were made for the domestic market, and to show idealised scenes of Western life. For a further discussion on this theory, see D. S. Howard, Choice of the Private Trader, 1994, pp.70-71, and no.50 for a similar example in the Hodroff Collection. (CHECK THIS IS CORRECT)

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