CIRCA 1700

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A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE "BACCHUS" DISH
CIRCA 1700
Of silver shape with a central roundel of the god of wine holding a goblet aloft and wearing fruiting grapevine about his head and waist, all within a wide band of scrolling vine and a petal-molded rim
14 5/8 in. (37.1 cm.) diameter

Literature

Fuchs and Howard, Made in China, p. 127, no. 78.

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Lot Essay

This dish was probably intended for use as a tray; its decoration was likely based on a Dutch delft design. For another example in the Mottahedeh Collection, see Howard and Ayers, op. cit. vol. I, p. 76, no. 34. Others are in the collections of British Museum and in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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