A CHINESE IMARI EUROPEAN SUBJECT PLATE

CIRCA 1730

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A CHINESE IMARI EUROPEAN SUBJECT PLATE
Circa 1730
With the scene known as Governor Duff and his wife, showing the Dutch couple strolling in an Oriental garden, their small hound at their side, the elaborate border with still-lifes of auspicious objects
9in. (23.5cm.) diameter

Provenance

The Lucile and Robert H. Gries Charity Fund
Western Reserve Historical Society

Lot Essay

Although popularly thought to be of Governor-General Duiven, posted by the Dutch East India Company to Batavia 1729-31, or earlier Louis XV of France, no print source has been identified to confirm that it is either. See D.S. Howard, Choice of the Private Trader, p. 62.

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