A PAIR OF CHINESE IMARI GOVERNOR DUFF PLATES

CIRCA 1725-30

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A PAIR OF CHINESE IMARI GOVERNOR DUFF PLATES
Circa 1725-30
Each well-painted with the Dutch couple strolling arm in arm in a fenced Chinese garden, their small hound at their feet and maple branches above, all within an elaborate border of leaf-shaped lappets and still-lifes of auspicious objects
9 1/8in. (23.1cm.) diam. (2)

Lot Essay

Popularly thought to represent Governor-General Duiven, posted by the Dutch East India Co. to Batavia 1729-31, or alternatively Louis XIV of France, though no print source has so far been identified to confirm either theory. See D.S. Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, p. 62

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