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A set of seven famille rose 'Judgement of Paris' plates
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Enamelled after a European print with Paris offering the golden apple to Aphrodite, while her sisters Hera and Athena look on, all within an iron-red and gilt shell scroll at the rim, one with star crack
23 cm. diam. (7)

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Lot Essay

This scene was most likely based on a print made after the original by Rubens. Many versions exist, differing in colour sceme, border design and the way the subjects are painted. F. et N. Hervouët and Y. Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes, p. 310 illustrate five such plates including an example to the present, no. 13.71.
For further examples see D.S. Howard and J. Ayers, China for the West, 1978, p. 329.

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