A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN 'EUROPEAN SUBJECT' CHARGER
Lot 402

A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN 'EUROPEAN SUBJECT' CHARGER

QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1745

Closed20 October 2023

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USD 1,386

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A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN 'EUROPEAN SUBJECT' CHARGER
QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1745
For the Dutch market, painted in famille rose enamels with a scene of two 'East Indiaman' ships and several smaller boats in a harbor, a European figure wearing a green jacket standing in a doorway on the right side, within a Meissen-style colorful foliate scroll border and two narrow turquoise bands bordered around the rim
12 5⁄8 in. (32.1 cm.) diameter

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 24 January 1990, lot 348.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.

Specialist note

For a discussion of this pattern, the ships depicted and the relationship between the decoration and Meissen, see the example illustrated in C. Le Corbeiller, China Trade Porcelain: Patterns of Exchange, New York, 1974, pp. 90-91, no. 36.