CIRCA 1765-75

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TWO FAMILLE ROSE PSEUDO TOBACCO-LEAF OVAL DISHES
CIRCA 1765-75
Similarly enamelled in iron-red, lime-green, sepia, pink and gilt with Japanese mon, interlocking rings, hibiscus and multi-coloured leafy fronds
13 3/8 in. (34 cm.) and 13 1/8 in. (33.3 cm.) wide (2)

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Lot Essay

Traditionally known as 'pseudo-tobacco-leaf' although the pattern does not actually depict tobacco leaves, this service was probably made for the Portuguese market, and may well have been a precursor to the true 'tobacco-leaf' wares, which are normally dated a decade or so later. See M. Beurdeley, Porcelain of the East India Companies, London, 1962, p. 186, cat. no. 158 for a plate from this service; and Howard and Ayers, China for the West, London and New York, 1978, vol. II, p. 541, no. 556 for a sauce-tureen stand from the Mottahedeh Collection.

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