EARLY 18TH CENTURY

Details

A pair of Chinese export iron-red and gilt 'John the Baptist' dishes
Early 18th Century
Enamelled and gilt at 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, some rubbing of the gilt, very faint hairline
27.6 cm. diam. (2)

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Lot Essay

Similar dishes are illustrated by Hervouët and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p. 263, fig. 11.14; by C. Le Corbeiller, China Trade Porcelain: Patterns of Exchange, New York, 1974, p. 70, fig. 32; and by M. Jourdain and R. Soame Jenyns, Chinese Export Art in the Eighteenth Century, 1950, p.;117, fig.87.

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