CIRCA 1730-40

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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE 'QUAIL' DISHES
Circa 1730-40
Each enamelled in the centre with two quails under blossoming prunus, crysanthemum and peony, the everted rim decorated bianca-sopra- bianca with prunus, bamboo and chrysanthemum between a band of yellow trelis and cartouches of lotus on a cracked-ice ground with scattered prunus blossoms, one with base crack
9 in. (22.8 cm.) diam. (2)

Provenance

7th Earl Castle-Stewart, who in 1920 married Eleanor, daughter of Solomon R Guggenheim of New York, and thence by descent.

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Lot Essay

A very similar plate from the Mottahedeh Collection is illustrated by Howard and Ayers, China for the West, London and New York, 1978, vol. I, p.152, no.132, where the introduction and use of bianco-sopra-bianco is discussed. A teapot and cover with this design is the Groninger Museum, illustrated by C.J.A. Jörg, Oosterse keramiek uit Groninger kollekties, Groningen, 1982, p.56, no.80.

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