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Lot Essay
Although not forbidden until 1760, Western merchants occasionally took their families to Canton, but are very rarely depicted on porcelain before 1750. Compare the very similar example in the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels, exhibited Hong Kong, 1989-90, Chinese Export Porcelain, catalogue no.33; another is in the British Museum, exhibited in Taibei, Ancient Chinese Trade Ceramics, 1994, catalogue no.28; and a third is illustrated by F. & N. Hervouët and Y. Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, 1986, no.5.3. Compare also the related plates of the same date and similarly decorated with Chinese rather than Western figures; one such plate is in the British Museum and illustrated ibid no.28a. Another is illustrated by C. Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1997, p.209, no.232. A third is illustrated by D. S. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinese Export Porcelain - Chine de Commande, 1974, no.288.