CIRCA 1785

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A RARE FAMILLE ROSE 'HARVEST' BOWL
CIRCA 1785
Brightly enamelled in two large shaped panels with narrow green scroll borders on the exterior, on one side with three young men reaping the ripened wheat, whilst two others gather and tie it into sheaves, the other panel with figures piling the sheaves on a large rick, one standing on top, another on a ladder, whilst a lady with a large basket looks on, all reserved on an iron-red Y-pattern ground, the interior with a simple floral bouquet at the centre and a wide gilt trellis-pattern band above narrower iron-red and green bands, rim hairlines
11 3/8 in. (29 cm.) diam., wood stand

Provenance

Purchased from Cohen & Pearce.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

Lot Essay

An almost identical bowl is illustrated by Hervouët and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p. 88, fig. 4.19. Other similar examples are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated by J. G. Phillips, China-Trade Porcelain, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1956, p. 79, pl.13; and two inscribed bowls dated 1769 and 1779 in The British Museum, exhibited Ancient Chinese Trade Ceramics, Taibei, 1994, catalogue no. 47, p.112. See Howard and Ayers, China for the West, London and New York, 1978, vol. I, p.286, no. 283 for the Mottahedeh example; and E. Gordon, Collecting Chinese Export Porcelain, London, 1978, colour plate VI for another example.

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