A PAIR OF CHINESE VERTE-IMARI 'BIRD CATCHER' TEABOWLS AND SAUCERS

YONGZHENG/EARLY QIANLONG PEROD, CIRCA 1735

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A PAIR OF CHINESE VERTE-IMARI 'BIRD CATCHER' TEABOWLS AND SAUCERS
YONGZHENG/EARLY QIANLONG PEROD, CIRCA 1735
Each delicately potted with foliate rims, with a European couple seated on a terrace with an open bird-cage, with two birds flying above and a third in the foreground
The saucers 4¼ in. (10.9 cm.) diam. (2)

Provenance

The Hervoüet Collection, nos. 288 and 289; Sotheby's Monaco, 22 June 1987, lot 1571.

Literature

One saucer: Hervoüet and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, fig. 4.26, p. 90.

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Lot Essay

The design is probably after a painting by Pater. See Howard & Ayers, China for the West, London and New York, 1978, vol. II, p. 360, no. 349 for the Mottahedeh example. Another pair was sold at King Street, 11 May 2004, lot 17.

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