A PAIR OF EUROPEAN SUBJECT CANTON ENAMEL SMALL SQUARE DISHES

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A PAIR OF EUROPEAN SUBJECT CANTON ENAMEL SMALL SQUARE DISHES
18TH CENTURY

Each decorated with European subjects, one a courting couple, the other with two merchants and a boy holding a coral branch, within gilt-decorated, black foliate scroll borders in the well, repeated on the exterior, base with seal mark in ruby red, raised on bracket supports set below the indented corners--4 in.(10cm.) square (2)

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For similar examples from the Rafi Y. Mottahedeh Collection, bearing KE & W marks on the reverse, see Chinese Painted Enamels, The China Institute in America, 1969-1970, Catalogue pl. 33