A RARE EXPORT PURPLE AND YELLOW ENAMELED SPOON TRAY

Details

A RARE EXPORT PURPLE AND YELLOW ENAMELED SPOON TRAY
QIANLONG, CIRCA 1740

Of shaped hexagonal form probably painted after a Pronk design with a central plume-like motif reserved on a yellow patterned ground, below purple swags at the rim--5 1/4in. (13.4cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Cf. Howard and Ayers, China for the West, 1978, Vol. I, p. 302, no. 296, for a cup and saucer of the same pattern; and Scheurleer, Chinese Export Porcelain, p. 133, no. 35, for a line drawing of a saucer in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York