CIRCA 1740

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A RARE LARGE FAMILLE ROSE 'SKATING LESSON' DISH
Circa 1740
Enamelled at the centre with a lady holding on to a long horizontal boating hook as she struggles to stay upright, being assisted by a rotund gentleman behind her, she wearing a red and yellow-striped blouse, an aubergine jacket and a white apron over a pink skirt, he with a large aubergine hat, white jerkin and trousers and long boots, numerous other figures floundering on the ice behind them, the well with iron-red and gilt hibiscus, and the wide border with brightly enamelled peach, gourd, pomegranate and finger citrus amongst orchid, chrysanthemum and exotic flowers, minute underside rim chips
14 in. (35.5 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 12 November 1979, lot 200 (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. J-88).

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Lot Essay

This scene is taken from an engraving entitled 'December', one of a series of 'The Months' by Cornelis Dusart; see F.W.H. Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, Amsterdam, n.d., vol.VI, fig.31, p.63. For a very similar dish from the Katz Collection, see M. Beurdeley, Porcelain of the East India Companies, London, 1962, p.189, cat.171; another from the G. Pereira Collection, Lisbon, is illustrated by Hervouët and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p.83, fig.4.5. There is a smaller dish in the Rijksmuseum.

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