EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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A pair of iron-red and gilt 'john the baptist' plates
Early 18th Century
Enamelled and gilt to the centre with a biblical scene of the Baptism of Christ by St. John in the River Jordan beneath a dove in flight, the border with two sprays of composite fruit branches held at the top by an exotic bird and two putti holding ribbons at either side of the inscription 'Mat.3.16' below, small glaze frit
21.5 cm. diam. (2)

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Lot Essay

Compare a similar dish illustrated by Hervouët and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p. 263, fig. 11.14; another from the Musée Guimet by M. Beurdeley, Porcelain of the East India Companies, London, 1962, p. 203, cat. 226; by C. Le Corbeiller, China Trade Porcelain: Patterns of Exchange, New York, 1974, p. 70, fig. 32, for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston example; and by M. Jourdain and R. Soame Jenyns, Chinese Export Art in the Eighteenth Century, 1950, p. 117, fig.87 for the British Museum dish.

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