CIRCA 1780

Details

A FAMILLE ROSE SOUP-PLATE FOR THE INDIAN MARKET
Circa 1780
Enamelled at the centre with a mahout on his elephant holding a whip in his right hand, within four floral sprigs, all below pink enamel spearheads and diaper bands
9 in. (23 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Comandante Ernesto de Vilhena; 22 January 1970, lot 312.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Monaco, 22 June 1989, lot 120A (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. J-148).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This central scene was used within at least three different border designs between 1760 and 1790. A tureen and dish from this service is in the Metropolitan Museum, Helena Woolworth McCann Collection, illustrated by J. G. Phillips, China Trade Porcelain, Harvard University Press, 1960, pp.210-211, pls.107 and 108; a tureen is illustrated by M. Beurdeley, Porcelain of the East India Companies, London, 1962, p.167, cat.81; a plate from the Mottahedeh Collection is illustrated by Howard and Ayers, China for the West, London and New York, 1978, vol.II, no.478; and another is illustrated by Hervouët and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p.105, fig.4.74. Compare also a plate from an earlier service illustrated by J. A. Lloyd Hyde, Oriental Lowestoft, Newport, 1964, p.64, pl.XII, fig.33.

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