CIRCA 1730-40

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A SET OF SEVEN OCTAGONAL FAMILLE ROSE PLATES
Circa 1730-40
Each brightly enamelled with a lady and a boy on a boat approaching another lady standing under a willow tree and a flowering tree with a young child in a sling on her back, the border with an aubergine-glazed eight-pointed star with flowering lotus reserved on a blue diaper ground forming lappets below the rim, one restored, four cracked
8¼ in. (21 cm.) wide (7)

Provenance

A pair:
W. Martin-Hurst (inventory no.1224).
Willem J.R. Dreesmann, Amsterdam; Frederik Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, 22-25 March 1960, lot 380.
One plate:
W. Martin-Hurst (inventory no.538).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 26 March 1980, lot 1877 (to Dreesmann).
One plate:
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 9 June 1986, lot 276 (to Dreesmann).
One plate:
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 26 October 1993, lot 93 (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory nos. J-48, J-95, J-127 and J-159).

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

A single plate from this service, from the Mottahedeh Collection, is illustrated by Howard and Ayers, China for the West, London and New York, 1978, vol. I, no.140. Two further examples from the W. Martin-Hurst Collection are illustrated by G. Williamson, The Book of Famille Rose, London, 1927, pl.XLV, one of which has a different colour scheme at the border.

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