A CHINESE EXPORT EN GRISAILLE 'PORTRAIT' DISH
清乾隆 外銷墨彩人物肖像盤

A CHINESE EXPORT EN GRISAILLE 'PORTRAIT' DISH

Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period

清乾隆 外銷墨彩人物肖像盤

The shallow dish painted en grisaille to the centre with a portrait of Reverend Ds. Petrus Boudaan (1666-1734), after an engraving by Petrus Schenk of Amsterdam (1660-1718/19), the cavetto decorated with gilt-painted ruyi heads and scrolling motifs,

20.6cm diameter

THIS LOT IS OFFERED WITH NO RESERVE

無底價

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c.f. See a similarly-decorated saucer in the collection of the Amsterdams Hisorisch Museum, see David S. Howard and John Ayers, 'China for the West, Chinese Porcelain & other Decorative Arts for Export Illustrated from the Mottahedeh Collection', Sotheby's, 1978, vol. 1, p. 255, pl. 250. For another example see 'La Porcelaine Des Compagnies Des Indes A Decor Occidental', 1986, pg. 276, fig. 11.54.