ID 1031024
Lot 110 | A SET OF NINE CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN DUTCH-DECORATED 'SOUTH SEA BUBBLE' PLATES
Estimate value
$ 6 000 – 8 000
THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1720, THE DUTCH COLD-PAINTED DECORATION OF SLIGHTLY LATER DATE
Each plate molded in low relief with peonies and scrolls and enameled with different figures of tradesmen or musicians each above a Dutch inscription and within three flower sprays around the rim, satirizing the 'South Sea Bubble'
8 5/8 in. (21.9 cm.) diameter
Provenance
H.W. Henderson, West Woodhay, Berkshire (the plate with a gentleman and a stork).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 2 November 1982, lot 125.
The Collection of François Hervouët; Sotheby's, Monaco, 22 June 1987, lot 1723.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.
Literature
F. & N. Hervouët and Y. Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes a Decor Occidental, Paris, 1986, pp. 382 and 384-5, nos. 16.63-16.71.
W.B. Honey, 'Dutch Decorators of Chinese Porcelain', in Chinese Export Porcelain, An Historical Survey, ed. Elinor Gordon, New York, 1975, p. 103, fig. 6 (the plate painted with a gentleman and a stork, Hervouët Collection no. 16.67).
| Applied technique: | Pottery |
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| Medium: | Ceramic, Porcelain |
| Art style: | Chinese Export |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Plates & Dishes, Plates |
| Applied technique: | Pottery |
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| Medium: | Ceramic, Porcelain |
| Art style: | Chinese Export |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Plates & Dishes, Plates |
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