A PUCE-ENAMELLED 'EUROPEAN-SUBJECT' 'FOLLY FORT' PLATE, the centre possibly depicting the Dutch fort with a pagoda on the top of a round man-made island in the Pearl River estuary surrounded by a gilt scroll and shell border (rim flakes), Qianlong
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A PUCE-ENAMELLED 'EUROPEAN-SUBJECT' 'FOLLY FORT' PLATE, the centre possibly depicting the Dutch fort with a pagoda on the top of a round man-made island in the Pearl River estuary surrounded by a gilt scroll and shell border (rim flakes), Qianlong
22.5cm. diam.
Lot Essay
Cf. C. Le Corbeiller, op. cit., p.96, pl.39. Similar plates were sold in these Rooms, 11 May 1992, lot 137 and 7 November 1994, lot 168