A FAMILLE ROSE 'MUSICIAN' FOLIATE OVAL DISH

YONGZHENG/EARLY QIANLONG

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A FAMILLE ROSE 'MUSICIAN' FOLIATE OVAL DISH
yongzheng/early qianlong
The centre decorated with a European strumming a lute and seated on pierced rockwork between flower sprays, all within a band of pink and gilt leafy scroll, a spearhead band at the well, and a colourful leafy scroll with birds and butterflies below the thickly moulded foliate rim, small frits to rim
12 in. (30 cm.) wide

Lot Essay

An identical dish of this rare shape and design is illustrated by F. and N. Hervout and Y. Bruneau, op.cit., 1986, p.187, fig.8.14. Compare the related plates and dishes with a central European figure, usually seated amongst scattered flower sprays and always enclosed within the same band of flowers and rocaille leaves illustrated by Hervout and Bruneau ibid., figs. 4.29, 6.62, 8.3, and 8.10; another is in the Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels, exhibited Hong Kong, 1989/90, Catalogue, no.39; and a plate from the Mottahedeh Collection is illustrated by D.S. Howard and J. Ayers, op.cit., 1978, vol.II, no.348, p.359.

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