CIRCA 1750

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A PAIR OF CAMAIEU ROSE 'LE PECHEUR' SOUP-PLATES
Circa 1750
Decorated at the centre with a fishing scene, a young man standing barefoot on a river-bank holding a rod beside two large fishing baskets below a tree-trunk with birds in flight overhead, the border with a du Paquier-style band including peacocks, a narrow gilt line in the well and at the rim, one underside rim flake infilled
9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm.) diam. (2)

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Lot Essay

The scene copies a print by C. J. Visscher de Jonge, a Dutch engraver, who based his design on a drawing by Abraham Bloemaert (1564-1651. A very similar plate from the Mottahedeh Collection is illustrated by Howard and Ayers, China for the West, London and New York, 1978, vol.II, pp.368-70, no.362. See D. S. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinese Export Porcelain - Chine de Commande, London, 1974, fig. 207 for an illustration of this print, together with two plates with this design as figs. 206 and 298 but with different borders and decorated en grisaille and gilt. A plate en grisaille and gilt from the J. Louis Binder Collection was sold in these Rooms, 17 June 2003, lot 51; and another, from the Collection of Dr Anton C. R. Dreesmann, was also sold in these Rooms, 10 April 2002, lot 425.

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