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.