CIRCA 1730-40

Details

A FAMILLE ROSE 'QUAILS' PLATE
Circa 1730-40
Enamelled with two quails beside prunus, chrysanthemum, peony and bamboo below four bianco-sopra-bianco floral clusters at the border and a narrow enamelled floral band at the rim, cracks
8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 26 March 1980, lot 1883 (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. J-96).

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Lot Essay

The introduction of bianco-sopra-bianco into China is a mystery, although it had been used in Italy in the 16th century and then in France, Sweden and England in the 18th century. See Howard and Ayers, China for the West, London and New York, 1978, vol.I, no.132 for a very similar plate from the Mottahedeh Collection; the authors suggest that the Chinese may have been responsible for re-introducing the technique into Europe after about 1730.

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