Live Auction 21109The Collection of Ann & Gordon Getty: Wheatland
A LARGE CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN 'SKATING LESSON' CHARGER
Lot 97

A LARGE CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN 'SKATING LESSON' CHARGER

QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1740

Closed19 October 2023

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A LARGE CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN 'SKATING LESSON' CHARGER
QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1740
The deep dish painted with a Dutch couple ice skating after Cornelis Dusart (1660-1704), the gentleman holding a long boathook for his companion to hold and steady herself, five surrounding smaller figures warming their hands or slipping on the ice, the border with a band of enameled and gilt fruits, flowers and leaves
14 in. (35.6 cm.) diameter

The Mildred R. and Rafi Y. Mottahedeh Collection; Sotheby's, New York, 30 January 1985, lot 177.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.

Specialist note

The central scene is adapted from a mezzotint by Cornelis Dusart (1660-1704), and is also painted on a smaller plate of the same model in the W. G. Gulland Collection at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (accession no. C.221-1931). Commenting on the present lot, D. Howard and J. Ayers note that the enamel-painting adheres closely to the original print, and that the figures' costumes and ice skates are particularly Dutch in style. See D. Howard and J. Ayers, China for the West, New York and London, 1978, vol. I, p. 287, no. 284.