A collection of Chinese export, famille rose, iron-red and blue and white porcelain
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A collection of Chinese export, famille rose, iron-red and blue and white porcelain

18TH CENTURY

Closed4 April 2012

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EUR 3,750

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A collection of Chinese export, famille rose, iron-red and blue and white porcelain
18th Century
Comprising a pair of grisaille and gilt mythological plates decorated at the centre with Aurora in her chariot drawn by two winged horses, circa 1745, 23 cm. diam.; a pair of iron-red and gilt armorial saucers with an accollé coat-of-arms within feathery mantling, first quarter 18th Century, 11.5 cm. diam.; an Imari armorial plate painted with the coat-of-arms of the Dutch family Van Gellicum, circa 1720-1730, 22.5 cm. diam.; an iron-red and gilt plate decorated with a scene from 'The Romance of the Western Chamber', 27.5 cm. diam.; a ruby-ground saucer with a landscape cartouche, 13 cm. diam.; a verte-Imari dish painted with a flower vase, 28.1 cm. diam.; a Canton famille rose one-handled beaker, 11 cm. diam.; and two blue and white quatrefoil dishes, 16 and 18 cm. wide (11)

Specialist note

For a similar mythological plate depicting Aurora, see Hervouët and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p. 294, fig. 13.10.