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Lot Essay
A similar dish was exhibited A Tale of Three Cities: Canton, Shanghai & Hong Kong, London, 1997, Catalogue no.130, p.109, where David Howard says that 'it is clear that the Chinese painters were mystified by the subject and may have been copying a Delft dish or vase, which would account for the European style of flowers at the rim.' Compare a similar dish in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated by F. and N. Hervouët and Y. Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, 1986, p.263, no.11.13; and another in the Mottahedeh Collection, illustrated by David Howard and John Ayers, China for the West, 1978, vol.I, p.313, no.306. Compare also the smaller, more simple versions in iron-red, illustrated by F. and N. Hervouët and Y. Bruneau, ibid., p.263, no.11.14; another from the Museé Guimet, Paris, by M. Beurdeley, Porcelain of the East India Companies, 1962, cat.226; one from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, by C. Le Corbeiller, China Trade Porcelain: Patterns of Exchange, 1974, p.70, fig.32; A very similar dish from the Jarras Collection was sold in our London Rooms, 13 June 1990, lot 86; one was sold at Christie's London on 7 April 1997, lot 30; and another on 6 April 1998, lot 42.