A very rare export 'european subject' plate

EARLY QIANLONG

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A very rare export 'european subject' plate
Early Qianlong
The centre enamelled with two trumpeteers, the right figure playing a circular horn and dressed in a yellow three-quarter-length tunic with Roman sandals, the left one playing a trumpet suspending a standard, all reserved on a deep black enamel ground enriched with bands of gilt spearheads and diapers (slight wear to the gilding)
23 cm. diam.

Lot Essay

A plate with the design in reverse is in the Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam and is illustrated in Hervouët and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes, p.191, no.8.20 and no. 8.21 for another similar one. Other shapes are discussed in Howard and Ayers, China for the West, vol.I, p.305, no.229

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