A SET OF FOUR 'LEAPING DOG' PLATES enamelled in vivid blue tones with a central leaping Pekinese within four foliate panels depicting a stork in flight, two cooing doves, a cockatoo on a stand and a parrot on a perch clutching a sprig of cherries, all reserved on a sepia trellis-pattern ground (one with hairline crack, one with small rim chip), circa 1735 | Christie's

Lot 98

A SET OF FOUR 'LEAPING DOG' PLATES enamelled in vivid blue tones with a central leaping Pekinese within four foliate panels depicting a stork in flight, two cooing doves, a cockatoo on a stand and a parrot on a perch clutching a sprig of cherries, all reserved on a sepia trellis-pattern ground (one with hairline crack, one with small rim chip), circa 1735

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A SET OF FOUR 'LEAPING DOG' PLATES enamelled in vivid blue tones with a central leaping Pekinese within four foliate panels depicting a stork in flight, two cooing doves, a cockatoo on a stand and a parrot on a perch clutching a sprig of cherries, all reserved on a sepia trellis-pattern ground (one with hairline crack, one with small rim chip), circa 1735
22.5cm. diam. (4)

Lot Essay

Cf. D. Howard and J. Ayers, op. cit., p. 296 for a similarly decorated plate, possibly after the Dutch designer Cornelis Pronk

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