A GRISAILLE EUROPEAN SUBJECT SAUCER DISH

CIRCA 1800

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A GRISAILLE EUROPEAN SUBJECT SAUCER DISH
Circa 1800
The center painted with three deer before the Thames, West Wycombe Park in the distance, within a gilt roundel and further iron-red and blue dot band, the border with a gilt and blue diamond pattern band
9¼ in. (23.4 cm.) diameter, iron-red and gilt Qianlong seal mark

Provenance

The Mildred R. and Rafi Y. Mottahedeh Collection, Sotheby's, New York, 30 January 1985, lot 165

Literature

David Howard and John Ayers, op. cit., vol. I, p. 270-271, pl. 268

Exhibited

China Institute in America, 1973-74, no. 60
Virginia Museum, 1981-82
Sotheby's, 1984

Lot Essay

West Wycombe Park, Buckinghamshire, is infamous for its association with the Hellfire Club, run by the home's owner Sir Francis Dashwood. Its membership included both men and women, and its toasts were often 'blasphemous and... revolting'. This particular view is possibly from an 1803 engraving by J. Grieg after W. Hanman for The Beauties of England and Wales. See Howard and Ayers, op. cit., p. 270 and Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, vol. II, p. 560 for a further discussion.

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