QIANLONG

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A pair of famille rose oval dishes for the Indian market
Qianlong
After a silver rococo prototype, the sides moulded with a shell-pattern highlighted in iron-red, green, black and gilt, the centre enamelled with a shaped cartouche enclosing an Indian figure riding an elephant, reserved on a bianco-sopra-bianco ground with flower-heads
22.3 cm. wide (2)

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Lot Essay

A plate with a similar design is illustrated by J. Ayers & D. Howard, China for the West, London, 1978, vol. II, p. 468, where they state that there were three different designs made between 1760-90, and that some of these wares were shipped to Europe by Indian merchants in Madras and Bombay. A dish of similar form and moulding but different decoration with matching tureen, bears the arms of King Dom Pedro III and Queen Dona Maria I of Brazil, see Nuno de Castro, Chinese Porcelain and the Heraldry of an Empire, Oporto, 1988, p. 134.

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