CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, EPOQUE QIANLONG, CIRCA 1740

Details

GRAND PLAT ARMORIE EN PORCELAINE DE LA FAMILLE ROSE
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, EPOQUE QIANLONG, CIRCA 1740
Orné au centre des armes de Christian Auguste, Prince de Anhalt, et sa femme Princesse Johanna Elizabeth de Holstein-Gottorp, la bordure rehaussée d'or
L.: 42.5 cm. (16 ¾ in.)

Provenance

Collection de Helena Woolworth McCann, ‘Sunken Orchard’, Oyster Bay Cove, New York.
Galerie d'art Albright-Knox, Buffalo, New York.
Sotheby's New York, 4-5 Avril 2007, lot 221.

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Further details

A LARGE PRINCELY ARMORIAL SERVING DISH
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1740

Lot Essay

A pair of dishes from the same service were sold at Christie's New York, 25 January 2011, lot 56, and a pair from the collection of The Benjamin F. Edwards III sold at Christie's New York, 22 January 2003, lot 154.

The current lot belongs to an important service ordered by Christian Auguste and Johanna Elizabeth, Prince and Princess of Anhalt, who were the parents of Catherine the Great. Because direct trade between the princely states of Germany and China was rare, the known German armorial services were all made for princely families: Hohenzollern, Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenberg-Schwerin.

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