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A rare pair of Chinese Imari European subject plates, Yongzheng,…
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Melbourne
Date:
26-Feb-2007
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A rare pair of Chinese Imari European subject plates, Yongzheng, Circa 1720-30, each one decorated in underglaze blue, gilt and iron-red with a nobleman and a lady walking a hound, the cavetto with an elaborate border of flowers and precious objects, 23 cm. Provenance: The Eric Dare Collection;The Ray Mitchell Collection, sold Gray Eisdale and Timms, 1997, Literature: see Howard and Ayers, China for the West, 1978, colour pl 127, p 146 for an example from the Mottahedeh collection; others are in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; the Museu de Arte Antiga, Lisbon, According to Howard and Ayers, the promenading figures have been variously described as Louis XIV and Madame de Maintenon and General Duff and his wife. Beurdeley states that the subject is Dutch rather than French
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