A famille rose 'Rockefeller pattern' oval serving dish

CIRCA 1790

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A famille rose 'Rockefeller pattern' oval serving dish
Circa 1790
Finely enamelled with a central scene depicting several scholars studying a scroll unrolled on a table, three other figures grouped to the right of the table, all on a rocky terrace with bamboo fence overlooking a river, framed on the well by a scale-pattern ground reserved with bird cartouches and flowering trees, the rim with a dense gilt leaf-scroll ground reserved with landscape medallions in sepia and iron-red
44 cm. wide

Lot Essay

This service, which is unusual in that each piece is enamelled with a different central scene, was known as 'Palace ware' in the early 20th Century and more recently as 'Rockefeller pattern' after Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who possessed a particularly fine and complete service. Other examples from this service are illustrated by D.S. Howard and J. Ayers, China for the West, 1978, vol. I, nos. 187 and 188, p. 188.

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