A RARE 'GLUCKLIG ARIVEMENT' PLATE

YONGZHENG PERIOD

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A RARE 'GLUCKLIG ARIVEMENT' PLATE
YONGZHENG PERIOD
Richly enamelled with three laden Dutch ships above an inscription translating to Happy Homecoming, the border with scrolling dragon medallions and peonies between trellis patterned bands
8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm.) diameter

Literature

D.S. Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, p. 66, pl. 43

Lot Essay

Only several examples in this pattern, so emblematic of the China trade, are known and were thought to be made as a special order, most likely for a specific happy homecoming. For other examples see Howard and Ayers, op. cit., vol. I, pp. 198-9, pl. 196; M. Beurdeley, op. cit., p. 182, cat. no. 141; and The Anton C.R. Dreesmann Collection, Christie's, Amsterdam, 16 April 2002, lot 1304.

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