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Lot Essay
Dr. Christian J.A. Jörg, Porcelain and the Dutch China Trade, The Hague, 1982, p. 179 notes that according to the Dutch East India Company's 'Requirements' of 1773, there existed a narrow type for a single herring and a wider version for two, and that dishes were painted with either one or two herring for their respective requirements. A dish with two herring is illustrated by Jörg, idem, fig. 89; and another with two herring rather than the more common one fish, is in the Gemeente Museum, Den Haag, illustrated by Dr. T. Volker, De Chinese Porselein Kast, 1954, cat.no. 238. For a single dish and a Delft prototype, cf. Howard and Ayers,China for the West, vol,I, p. 85, no. 42.
The two-herring type dish inspired a transfer-printed Spode earthenware dish, R. Copeland, Spode's willow pattern and other designs after the Chinese, p.44, pl.26.
A double-herring dish was sold in these rooms, The Dutch Interior, 29 Septemer 1999, lot 731 and another from the Jarras Collection in our London Rooms, 13 June 1990, lot 88.
The two-herring type dish inspired a transfer-printed Spode earthenware dish, R. Copeland, Spode's willow pattern and other designs after the Chinese, p.44, pl.26.
A double-herring dish was sold in these rooms, The Dutch Interior, 29 Septemer 1999, lot 731 and another from the Jarras Collection in our London Rooms, 13 June 1990, lot 88.