EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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AN IRON-RED AND GILT 'JOHN THE BAPTIST' DISH
EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Enamelled and gilt at the centre with a biblical scene of the Baptism of Christ by St. John in the River Jordan beneath a dove in flight, the border with two sprays of composite fruit branches held at the top by an exotic bird and two putti holding ribbons at either side of the inscription Mat.3.16 below, some restoration
10 5/8 in. (27.3 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

Compare the similar dishes illustrated by Hervouët and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p. 263, fig. 11.14; another from the Musée Guimet by M. Beurdeley, Porcelain of the East India Companies, London, 1962, p. 203, cat. 226 for the dish in the Musée Guimet; by C. Le Corbeiller, China Trade Porcelain: Patterns of Exchange, New York, 1974, p. 70, fig. 32, for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston example; and by M. Jourdain and R. Soame Jenyns, Chinese Export Art in the Eighteenth Century, 1950, p.;117, fig.87 for the British Museum dish.

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