Lot Essay
Cf. Anon. sale, Christie's New York, May 22, 1985, lot 108 for a silver-shape dish painted in a similar style
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A FAMILLE ROSE SHAPED DISH
QIANLONG, CIRCA 1760
Of silver shape, and painted with a European gentleman seated by a recumbent elephant below a tree (minute chip)--9½in. (24cm.) wide; together with a famille rose foliate saucer, Qianlong, 1790, decorated with figures in the act of tightrope walking and balancing--5½in. (14cm.) diam. (2)
QIANLONG, CIRCA 1760
Of silver shape, and painted with a European gentleman seated by a recumbent elephant below a tree (minute chip)--9½in. (24cm.) wide; together with a famille rose foliate saucer, Qianlong, 1790, decorated with figures in the act of tightrope walking and balancing--5½in. (14cm.) diam. (2)