A famille rose salt for the Indian market

This central scene was used within at least four different border designs between 1760 and 1790, but this version appears to be one of the earliest services. A dish from this service is illustrated by J. A. Lloyd Hyde, Oriental Lowestoft, Chinese Export Porcelain, Newport, 1964, pl.XII, fig.33. Other pieces from a slightly later service are illustrated by J. G. Phillips, China Trade Porcelain, Harvard University Press, 1960, pp.210-211, pls.107 and 108; by M. Beurdeley, Porcelain of the East India Companies, London, 1962, p.167, cat.81; by Howard and Ayers, China for the West, London and New York, 1978, vol.II, no.478; and by Hervouët and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p.105, fig.4.74.