QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795), CIRCA 1765

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TWO CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN BLUE AND WHITE RECTANGULAR 'HERRING' DISHES
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795), CIRCA 1765
Each shaped rectangular dish with underglaze blue Herring fish, the larger dish with two fish, each within an elaborate bordered edge and honeycomb cell-pattern rim
9 1⁄2 in. (34 cm.) long, the larger

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Lot Essay

Most certainly for the Dutch market, these dishes derive from similar Delft dishes from the period. See D. Howard & J. Ayers, China for the West, London, 1978, vol. I, p. 85 where a Delft dish is also illustrated.

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