Lot 162
162
A CHINESE VERTE-IMARI DISH painted in gilt, grisaille, sepia, iron-red and green enamel on underglaze-blue with a European gentleman and his lady beside a dog on a terrace below maple, the elaborate border with vessels of fruit, feathers, flowers and Buddhistic emblems, divided by blue leaf-shaped panels enriched with flowers (three small rim chips at the reverse), early Qianlong

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A CHINESE VERTE-IMARI DISH painted in gilt, grisaille, sepia, iron-red and green enamel on underglaze-blue with a European gentleman and his lady beside a dog on a terrace below maple, the elaborate border with vessels of fruit, feathers, flowers and Buddhistic emblems, divided by blue leaf-shaped panels enriched with flowers (three small rim chips at the reverse), early Qianlong
28.7cm. diam.

Lot Essay

These figures have been variously described as 'Louis XIV and Mme de Maintenon (or Mme de Montespan)', 'General Duff and his wife' and 'A Frisian couple'. Both Beurdeley and Lunsingh Scheurleer are in agreement, however, that the subject is Dutch rather than French. Cf. Howard and Ayers, op. cit., vol,1, pl.127, pp.145&146, where a dish is illustrated in colour; the example in the Rijksmuseum is illustrated by Lunsingh Scheurleer, op. cit., fig.203

Plates of this type were sold in Christie's London, 29th March 1982, lot 364 and 7th March 1984, lot 219

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