A LARGE PAIR OF DUTCH-DECORATED DISHES
A LARGE PAIR OF DUTCH-DECORATED DISHES

18TH CENTURY

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A LARGE PAIR OF DUTCH-DECORATED DISHES
18TH CENTURY
Carefully enamelled in a distinctive Dutch palette with a mother helping a boy climb out of a fishbowl as his older brother looks on, all beside a stream and beneath an exotic tree, the rim with with lotus blooms issuing scrolling laurel branches
14 3/8 in. (36.5 cm.) diameter (2)

拍品專文

A Dutch-enamelled dish with similar formal border but a scene of cockerels in a garden is in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, and illustrated by C.J.A. Jorg, Chinese Ceramics, p. 324.