TWO BLUE AND WHITE SOUP PLATES, each painted with a lady on a terrace, her hair dressed à la mode Fontanges holding a posie of flowers and receiving other bouquets by another couple and a servant, the border with flower sprays, the base with a leaf mark, 15.8cm. diam.; and a miniature teabowl en suite (chipped and cracked), Kangxi (3)

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TWO BLUE AND WHITE SOUP PLATES, each painted with a lady on a terrace, her hair dressed à la mode Fontanges holding a posie of flowers and receiving other bouquets by another couple and a servant, the border with flower sprays, the base with a leaf mark, 15.8cm. diam.; and a miniature teabowl en suite (chipped and cracked), Kangxi (3)

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Cf. Howard and Ayers, China for the West, vol.I, p.35, no.36 where the authors illustrate similar examples and note the subject illustrated is probably the sense of Smell inspired by a set of engravings depicting 'the Senses' by the four Bonnart brothers

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