18TH CENTURY

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A set of four Dutch-decorated 'maritime' saucer dishes
18th Century
Enamelled with a large East Indiaman bearing Dutch flags and the coat-of-arms of Amsterdam on choppy turquoise waters, two other ships sketched in the distance, all within a black-ground floral band at the rim, rim cracks and small chips
21 cm. diam. (4)

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Lot Essay

This Dutch-decorated scene is always found on saucer-dishes, although variations do occur both in the rim decoration and the fact that on some dishes the central ship bears the date 1700 and the arms of Zeeland. Others are in the Rijksmuseum, illustrated by D. F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinese Export Porcelain - Chine de Commande, London, 1974, fig. 355 and p. 230; in the Franks Collection at the British Museum, exhibited Ancient Chinese Trade Ceramics, Taibei, 1994, pp. 320 and 321, no. 144; the Hodroff Gallery at the Winterthur Museum, Delaware and is illustrated by D. S. Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, London, 1994, p. 61, no. 36.; and one is in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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