CIRCA 1740

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A FAMILLE ROSE MEISSEN-STYLE 'PETER THE GREAT' PLATE
CIRCA 1740
Enamelled at the centre with a figure wearing a crown instructing an attendant with barrels in an extensive riverscape, the border with three gilt dragon roundels alternating with puce landscape cartouches
9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

The crowned figure in this scene has traditionally been identified as Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia, who arrived in Amsterdam in 1697 and worked incognito at the small Dutch port of Zaandam. Various scenes with this crowned figure working on riverside wharves are recorded. See Hervouët and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p. 360, fig. 15.56 for a very similar plate.

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