CIRCA 1760

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A FAMILLE ROSE PLATE FOR THE INDIAN MARKET
CIRCA 1760
With broad everted foliate rim, the centre with a shaped cartouche containing a mahout riding an elephant between flowers and rockwork, reserved on a dense floral ground enamelled in bianco-sopra-bianco with flowers around the rim, rim frits
10 1/8 in. (25.7 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

Pieces with this border design appear to be from one of the earliest services. A dish from this service is illustrated by J. A. Lloyd Hyde, Oriental Lowestoft, Chinese Export Porcelain, Newport, 1964, pl.XII, fig.33. A plate with a different bianco-sopra-bianco border was sold in these Rooms, 12 November 2002, lot 127. Other pieces from a slightly later service are illustrated by J. G. Phillips, China Trade Porcelain, Harvard University Press, 1960, pp.210-211, pls.107 and 108; by M. Beurdeley, Porcelain of the East India Companies, London, 1962, p.167, cat.81; by Howard and Ayers, China for the West, London and New York, 1978, vol.II, no.478; and by Hervouët and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p.105, fig.4.74.

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