CIRCA 1775

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A pair of blue and white 'herring' dishes
Circa 1775
Of rectangular shape with notched corners, the centre painted with a herring, beneath a row of demi peony-heads interlaced with scrollwork suspending from a cell-pattern band around the everted rim, minor rim frits and small chips
24 cm. wide (2)

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Lot Essay

Dr. C.J.A. Jörg, Porcelain and the Dutch China Trade, The Hague, 1982, p. 179, fig. 89, notes that according to the Dutch East India Company's 'Requirements' of 1773, there existed a narrow type for a single herring and a wider version for two, and that dishes were painted with either one or two herrings for their respective requirements. For a single 'herring' dish and a Delft prototype, see Howard and Ayers, China for the West, vol. I, p. 85, no. 42.

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