A PAIR OF CHINESE IMARI GOVERNOR DUFF PLATES

CIRCA 1725-30

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A PAIR OF CHINESE IMARI GOVERNOR DUFF PLATES
CIRCA 1725-30
Each well-painted with the Dutch couple strolling arm in arm in a fenced Chinese garden, a small hound at their feet and maple branches above
9¼ in. (23.4 cm.) diameter (2)

Provenance

with Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York
Benjamin F. Edwards III Collection

Lot Essay

The present subject is popularly thought to represent Governor-General Duiven, posted by the Dutch East India Co. to Batavia 1729-31, or alternatively Louis XIV of France, though no print source has so far been identified to confirm either theory. See D.S. Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, p. 62. for a further discussion and illustration of a simliar plate also in the Hodroff collection.

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