EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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AN UNUSUAL DUTCH-DECORATED PLATE
EARLY 18TH CENTURY
The underglaze blue and white plate with densely scrolling foliage, over-enamelled in attractive pastel tones with three parakeets perched on flowering branches descending from the rim, each divided by a winged insect at the border, the reverse with three underglaze blue branches with details picked out in iron-red enamel
8½ in. (21.5 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

This plate was probably enamelled in Delft, where they had been painting parrots and similar birds on their own ware during the 17th and 18th Centuries, copying 17th Century Dutch engravings. A Chinese blue and white bowl with very similarly enamelled parrots and more elaborate flowers and foliage is illustrated by D. F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinese Export Porcelain - Chine de Commande, London, 1974, fig. 350; and another from the Mottahedeh Collection by Howard and Ayers, China for the West, London and New York, 1978, vol.II, p. 531, no. 542.

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