A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN 'PETER THE GREAT' DISH
A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN 'PETER THE GREAT' DISH

MID-18TH CENTURY

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A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN 'PETER THE GREAT' DISH
MID-18TH CENTURY
Enameled with a depiction of Peter the Great directing an attendant with barrels at a riverside landscape, within a bianco-sopra-bianco foliate border
15½ in. (39.5 cm.) diameter
Provenance
With Elinor Gordon, Oriental Lowestoft, Villanova, PA.

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Lot Essay

The crowned figure in this scene has traditionally been identified as Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia, who arrived in Amsterdam in 1697 and worked incognito at the small Dutch port of Zaandam. Various scenes with this crowned figure working on riverside wharves are recorded. See Hervouët and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p. 360, fig. 15.56 for a very similar plate.

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